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Read the list... > I notice when my mind is arguing for a side (instead of evaluating which side to choose), and flag this as an error mode. (Recent example fr

• JadeNB 12y ago
  > Read the list... I did (although, as I noted, I think that part of being rational is critically creating your own criteria for rationality, rather than using someone else's). I also was not claiming that this was not on the list—but: > I notice when my mind is arguing for a side (instead of evaluating which side to choose), and flag this as an error mode. Although logically—well, in classical logic, anyway—every argument against something is an argument for its opposite, I think that there is nonetheless a meaningful difference between making a contrarian argument (as I do; it is an essentially negative process) and arguing for the opposite position (an essentially positive process).
  • scarmig 12y ago
    Careful there, your constructivism is showing.