Hat is bad because it stands for racism -> attacks black guy for wearing hat.

It makes no sense.

the irony is completely lost on him

I just want to hit my head on a wall.

If a migrant child would wear a MAGA hat, I wonder if they would try to deport it to Mexico.

This kind of circular reasoning is everywhere, though.

I think I should post a few sources that might be helpful and sharpening thinking skills.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Godel%2C_Escher%2C_Bach_%28first_edition%29.jpg?1540491713823

^ that book will stop a 9mm FMJ

You've read it?

got ~75% through it before my buddy shot it

heh

There are few other books that have improved my clarity of thinking as much as this book has.

I think all children should have an education in propositional calculus from an early age. You cannot think logically without a firm grasp on that.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Propositional_calculus

I think post-modernism would disappear over night then.

Not a lot of critical reasoning and logic are taught to begin with

which sucks

I didn't take a philosophy class, let alone logic, until college.

That is way too late.

That stuff needs to be started in, like, middle school. At the latest.

^

@LotheronPrime dats a white liberal racis

As much as Europe sucks in other regards, this was pretty integral in the Netherlands.

You are taught mathematical proofs in high school there.

Is dat the redskin jersey also

That is an incredibly important skill to reason and make arguments.

Mathematical and logic proofs are the purest form of reasoning.

True

You can start with simple proofs, like showing that there are infinite prime numbers.

You deal with that kind of thing so often in the world

That's a very good place to start, because there are several proofs and easy enough for high schoolers to understand.

I really started learning logical proofs and flow when I started programming

but before that, I didn't know a whole lot

I got that kind of stuff in school when i was 10

It's also important, because it is a topic to which there are cut and dry answers, and not this wishy washy emotional debating we usually do.

Yep

I had never done any theorem proof in the US>

That was simply not part of High School.

very weird

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