Re:Ideas That Changed My Life
by dahart on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:09PM
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> "Thinking" is the practice of thought.
Oh, is that what you meant when you said "my first touch will still be sub-par."?
> I personally don't consider "reading a fact in a book" or "associating sounds to concepts" as "thinking" in the terms of the upthread conversation, but you clearly do.
I don't think you can learn philosophy without learning a language. I don't think you can learn the scientific method without first learning some scientific facts.
Please elaborate, where would you draw the line between facts+language, and "reasoning"?
Oh, is that what you meant when you said "my first touch will still be sub-par."?
> I personally don't consider "reading a fact in a book" or "associating sounds to concepts" as "thinking" in the terms of the upthread conversation, but you clearly do.
I don't think you can learn philosophy without learning a language. I don't think you can learn the scientific method without first learning some scientific facts.
Please elaborate, where would you draw the line between facts+language, and "reasoning"?