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1. Good Question...
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 11:36 AM
Oct 2019

I think, therefore I am? I am not thinking. Now what?

As a useful adjunct to all this political information we digest and absorb, I have recommended time well spent studying logical fallacies and cognitive biases. For me, they are like Windex and a squeegee for one's thinking process and I have been brushing up on them again. Repetition is the way to reinforce that until it is second-nature.

It really isn't too complicated and any confusion one experiences is a natural part of the learning process so there is no need to feel bad about initial confusion. It means you are learning something new. So, everybody who has interest in knowledge, intelligence and wisdom can polish their understanding.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/

https://yourbias.is/

Also, Crash Course has a basic philosophy playlist that is superb. Each segment averages ten-minutes, give or take. Overall, it is seven-hours of material, but it is put in well-paced, entertaining way with illustrations, etc. Who could come out the other end of those lesson the same?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR

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