doctorambient(Edited for clarity) When you listen to the average person justifying their beliefs it is terrifying.
#reason #reasoning #thinking #cognitivefallacies #thinkingfail #logicalfallacy #inconsistency #inconsistencies
Sean Patrick@doctorambient 99% of my thoughts just emerge into consciousness fully formed, I'm not sure if that's any more or less comforting.
@seanpatrickphd I think I know what you mean. I guess what I was really talking about was arguments, but I wasn't clear.
When you are explaining your ideas to other people, I assume you can justify them, after the fact, in a logically coherent way? (Given your bio, I would assume so.)
I had just watched a focus group being asked to explain their thinking, and it was really weird how many straightforward logical contradictions they had *all the time*.
One example was a person who gave a short, clear, excellent explanation of how one *should* seek new evidence and *learn* from it. And then, in the next follow-up question, basically said something like "no, even if I did all that research, *and got new contradictory evidence*, I wouldn't change my mind."
SMH