tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post5783491462745351765..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: The Lost Tools of LearningTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-17594321108343662052012-09-08T16:58:32.390-04:002012-09-08T16:58:32.390-04:00Yep. As you and I have both seen over on the estee...Yep. As you and I have both seen over on the esteemed John C Wright's blog, it's not so much making an argument that's hard, it's trying to talk with educated, credentialed people who haven't the vaguest idea what an argument even looks like, and yet have become convinced that they are perfectly reasonable. It's like they have somehow been perfectly inoculated against thought. <br /><br />It's an interesting to consider how, once education passed almost completely from the hands of the locals into the hands of the government, anything resembling reason - not just philosophy and logic, but things like math and science, too - have gradually become unteachable. Then, second-hand, history, literature, and all other branches of knowledge suffer, because once you can't reason, your mind is lying fallow just waiting for some Deconstructionist or Marxist or Hegelian to come along. <br /><br />A little Aristotle (and I have very little Aristotle) would sure be good. Joseph Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17489606909822078682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-86084271146005993642012-09-08T16:17:09.507-04:002012-09-08T16:17:09.507-04:00Arguments, especially bad ones, work best on folks...Arguments, especially bad ones, work best on folks who don't actually need to be persuaded. Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-19700820720462415042012-09-08T15:04:42.033-04:002012-09-08T15:04:42.033-04:00We find a well-known biologist writing in a weekly...<em>We find a well-known biologist writing in a weekly paper to the effect that: 'It is an argument against the existence of a Creator that the same kind of variations which are produced by natural selection can be produced at will by stock breeders.'</em><br /><br />Spooky. It's as if she was prescient. Either that or a certain segment of biologists hasn't gotten any brighter in the last 65 years.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17109095347818446088noreply@blogger.com