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Everyone believes their ideology is based on reason and not determined by their sociotope. My sociotope just happens to be the most reasonable one.
by cdot2 3y ago
Everyone believes their ideology is based on reason and not determined by their sociotope. My sociotope just happens to be the most reasonable one.
- calderknight 3y agoEveryone? Plenty of people don't practice ideological thinking in the first place.
- fourthark 3y agoUnless one doesn't think at all, or is completely inconsistent, one will have ideology.
- calderknight 3y agoSeems like a pretty crazy claim, want to share your reasoning?
- fourthark 3y agoMerriam-Webster: "Ideology: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture" No ideology = no characteristic thinking. If you think you don't have ideology, you probably have the dominant one. Or don't think.
- calderknight 3y agoEpic logic fail. You're affirming the consequent. Just because A -> B, and we have B, doesn't mean we can conclude A. Sure, Idealogy -> a manner of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture But A manner of thinking characteristic of an individual -> idealogy Doesn't follow from that!
- fourthark 3y agoIt's a definition, not a consequent. Definition is equality not if-then.
- calderknight 3y agoYou'd be right if it was actually a definition. But it's not. It deals with the attributes of the thing rather than the thing's essence. Like, the "definition" of car is 'a vehicle moving on wheels', but we can't from that conclude that all vehicles moving on wheels are cars.
- fourthark 3y agoI guess you have a more narrow definition of ideology!
- handoflixue 3y agoIdeology is often used both in the sense of "A well organized philosophy shared by numerous people" and "one's own personal philosophy". For instance, from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ideology https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ideology, "the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual (...)"
- calderknight 3y agoNot everybody has a body of beliefs that guides him.
- shadowfox 3y ago> Not everybody has a body of beliefs that guides him. Not the OP, but this got me curious. How does one reason about things if you have no axioms (i.e. "body of beliefs")? Are you using some non-axiomatic systems of reasoning or just saying that some people don't reason at all ?
- Georgelemental 3y agoI have a very different ideology from most of my social milieu. That's how I know I am truly enlightened and rational /s