Posted by alexandra_k on December 16, 2013, at 15:52:19
In reply to Re: Getting along in a sh*t-slinging world, posted by Moishe Pipik on December 16, 2013, at 10:57:14
first year philosophy students often have trouble seeing that an argument is valid even though it has a false conclusion or seeing that an argument is invalid even though they believe the conclusion is true. they don't seem able to separate out the form of the reasoning from the content of the argument.
i think that often people have similar things going on with respect to meaningful content and a bunch of other stuff that people do with language. For instance, a lot of people have trouble seeing that you can understand what someone is saying (listen to them, empathize with the fact that they believe what they believe or whatever) without necessarily agreeing with it or thinking it oneself.
I think the later sometimes results in 'oh yeah, she is such a bitch' sorts of affiliative gestures. The person saying it doesn't believe it - but it seems to be the sort of thing to say to placate the person who is upset. And that is the function of language, clearly. Social grooming. 'Do you know where the x is because is something goes wrong we will need the x?' 'oh yes, of course I do, tee hee'. Uh huh.
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Apparently people who score higher on the schizotypal scales (university students) are better at logic. (Who would have thought!?)
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I don't know what to say.
How do you help people tease these things apart?
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