tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post6431637434632025389..comments2023-06-20T02:25:36.578-07:00Comments on The Scholar's Stage: Do Not Trust Your ArgumentsT. Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-82804773986455438512019-09-21T05:42:48.289-07:002019-09-21T05:42:48.289-07:00"these thoughts are not the actual cause of t..."these thoughts are not the actual cause of the behavior in question. They are justifications."<br /><br />The reasons (ha!) that Sperber and Mercier come to this conclusion often involve one of the following two mistakes:<br />1) the assumption that the unconscious cannot rationally decide things and<br />2) the assumption that it should be easy/automatic for the consciousness to Confusionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08370228073178175995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-80402013102976618282019-09-19T14:54:30.221-07:002019-09-19T14:54:30.221-07:00This reminds me of one of my favorite quotations, ...This reminds me of one of my favorite quotations, attributed to Oliver Cromwell. Infuriated by a recalcitrant Parliament, he said "Gentlemen! I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."99bonkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04362331918019893342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-41597093138518346752019-09-18T09:40:48.480-07:002019-09-18T09:40:48.480-07:00Good teaser for Sperber & Mercier. and I look ...Good teaser for Sperber & Mercier. and I look forward to a fuller discussion. <i>The Enigma of Reason</i>can profitably be paired with Kahneman's <i>Thinking Fast and Slow</i>: both are profound challenges to the Enlightenment/classroom framing of articulated logical argument as the normative form of how and why we think, choose among alternatives, and decide. <br /><br />What struck me Monte Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15437698071525916855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-67796676388432115722019-09-06T07:42:40.053-07:002019-09-06T07:42:40.053-07:00There are some topics where that question, out to ...There are some topics where that question, out to me would get the answer<br /><br />"Here are my reasons, Proving them wrong would make me reconsider"<br /><br />There are also times when an opinion has to be based on probabilities and uncertain information in which case better information is always welcome.<br />BAdjao B And Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330042575905359270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-82733966106216488312019-09-04T19:08:11.875-07:002019-09-04T19:08:11.875-07:00Anything can be taken to an extreme. I don't r...Anything can be taken to an extreme. I don't recommend doing this at the beginning of every conversation. But if you are about to begin a big debate with someone, it is a useful place to start. T. Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-27646394019220326652019-09-04T08:19:59.285-07:002019-09-04T08:19:59.285-07:00The person willing to acknowledge at the beginning...<i>The person willing to acknowledge at the beginning that they may be wrong, and then lay out in the conditions in which they would be wrong, is a person worth your time. A person unwilling to admit the possibility of error is not. That person simply is not interested in truth. They are interested in winning.</i><br /><br />I agree with this to some extent, but I feel like there are still cases Kaj Sotala (Xuenay)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07645993508473592961noreply@blogger.com