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The Problem with the Way Scientists Study Reason
- sturza 7y agoreason works best when people argue with each other rather than reason alone, and that we evaluate arguments more objectively than we make them -> mind blown
- ggm 7y agoNot enough in examples of ethology aware tests for animals
- teunispeters 7y agothis makes sense. One more to add : typical discussions tend to ignore kinaesthetic reasoning, as most forms of it are ill adapted to university and thus tend not to be present in initial samples. I might be using terms wrong. But the kind of thinking useful in fixing cars is not a kind of reasoning that is common in first year university - or at least not discussions at that level. It's entirely probable I'm missing a whole layer, but I find that there's a hole in discussions about reason and perspective that misses a lot of people that are family. Oh and me, largely. I spent enough time wrangling wrenches, spinning spanners and driving forklifts.... Btw : I suspect more of the discussion along the lines of the attached article would remedy said hole. It's asking the right questions for a change that people like I knew a lot of my life could better answer.
- known 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine
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- gregwebs 7y agoThere's a recent work that does a great job explaining why humans have a difficult time reasoning. Humans don't have "Reason". They have "Reasons", and it is difficult to construct reason on top of this. https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/02/01/reason/ https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/02/01/reason/
- Green-Man 7y agoI have that feeling that I've already read this article some time ago.