[split] Critical Thinking Skills

[The Grand Nudger]

Which helps to very dramatically demonstrate what I posted directly prior to your post Mystic. It's like a program stuck in a loop. Whether or not the code can accomplish the task may be entirely separate from whether or not the task can be accomplished (evidenced by our ability to overcome those loops in programming, for example, as we better understand the task or problem). Another example of this would be the mt/mp problem that we've discussed before (and let me see if I can dredge up the link again) that would suggest - if we can swap these interchangeably, that an event in the future can be a causative agent for an event in the past - turning our notions of causality pretty much upside down (it's been suggested that this isn't so much a problem with logic as a problem with language - but it serves to elaborate upon the point).

All of this-before- we mention that even our understading of what is or is not logical, or what a valid argument can do for us - depends entirely upon the accuracy of the premise. In this case, that every effect requires a cause.