Rationality & Critical Thinking

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Parents

4. Truth
Bernardo Kastrup
The Seven Tenets

Children

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
"Generally speaking, the errors of religion are dangerous. The errors of philosophy are merely ridiculous."
"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."
"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." — /u/angela_davis
"Mixing a cow pie with an apple pie doesn’t make the cow pie better. It makes the apple pie worse."
"People can be so blinded by their prison of faith that they completely shut off their reason and intellect."
"Reason makes slaves of us all. …"
"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."
"The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true."
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
"You are never going to arrive at certainty about anything unless you have a much deeper understanding of that subjective lens that you are looking at everything through."
"You can tell the same lie a thousand times but it doesn't make it more true." — /u/beard_o
"You do not reason a man out of something he was not reasoned into."
“Aim is to debunk” trope
“Man has nothing to gain ... by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.”
“To posit the supernatural explains nothing, it merely asserts the futility of explanation.”
Beyond Reproach
Consensus Statement Regarding Critical Thinking and the Ideal Critical Thinker
Doubt = Virtue
Empiricism
Epistemology
Evidence
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Faith = Vice (Delusion)
How men's and women's brains are different
Humility
Intellectual Curiosity or Wonder
Intellectual Honesty
Karl Popper
Logical Fallacies
Many Ways to Be Wrong, Only One Way to Be Right
Open-mindedness
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Reason
Scholarship
Scientific Method
Skepticism
The Beauty of Gray
Why Won't God Heal Amputees?

Jumps

Bullsh!t
How to Avoid Being Conned
Human Thought
Knowledge
Mental Gymnastics

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