RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?
December 12, 2021 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2021 at 4:28 pm by SlowCalculations.)
(December 11, 2021 at 11:09 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(December 11, 2021 at 10:57 pm)SlowCalculations Wrote:
Interesting, i had a teacher who once told me people are not born critical thinkers (I'm undecided) but i like to think they just don't have the tools yet.
Would you agree or disagree just me being curious?
There is an old line that most people think that they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Even those who have the tools will tend to apply them in support of their own biases. They may be more likely to reject certain *justifications*, but all that means is that they will use *other* justifications for what they intuit to be the case.
Now, this doesn't mean that logic and reason are useless. It just means that they are not as important as we would like to think when it comes to convincing someone they are wrong. Much better is to find internal contradictions in their system while showing that the contradictions don't arise from other intuitions.
I think you're onto something there. I just don't know what it is myself yet or what I believe it could be it's been something I've wondered lately.
(December 12, 2021 at 7:40 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Believing in a thing because other people believe it is explicitly irrational. It's the living embodiment of the ad pop fallacy. Explicitly irrational, but not crazy or disordered....you know, just like here in our witchcraft believing culture...by any other name.
I think i agree, but maybe i agree it's irrational because i don't yet understand everyone's perspectives yet?
I spend a lot of time in my own head and yet, no matter how hard i try i still feel like some people on here are talking way beyond what i can comprehend no matter how many new concepts i grasp. i'm getting better but i'm still fairly far behind.
