RE: What is your Opinion on Having Required Classes in Logic in Schools?
July 27, 2015 at 7:35 pm
(July 27, 2015 at 2:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Logic is worthless if the premise is fucked up.
That is where the critical thinking part comes in.
Also, without logic, it won't matter whether one starts with good premises or not, as one will be apt to 'infer' all sorts of nonsense.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.