(December 25, 2017 at 11:13 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(December 25, 2017 at 10:58 am)Grandizer Wrote: Read this too many times and still makes no sense to me.
I think what SH is saying is that one arrives at religious truths without critical thinking, much the same way that a baby is produced without critical thinking. What his proposition fails to recognize, however, is that critical thinking prevents error by subjecting all ideas to scrutiny. Critical thinking isn't about producing an idea. It's about finding the right idea. He thinks critical thinking is like "inventing" or "giving birth to" ideas-- no. It's a process whereby an idea's validity is tested.
IMO (assuming that I have correctly interpreted SH's statement) it is a bad analogy.
Thanks. I guess I didnt think hed be this clueless. Hence, the confusion.
