From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Mar 04 1999 - 12:38:55 MST
ASpidle@aol.com writes:
> The point is that we were able to talk civilly about a highly charged
> controversy and almost agree on a resolution. Wouldn't it be more appropriate
> for legislators to talk civilly about broadening perspectives and resolving
> issues rather than bragging about defeating right or left wing extremists and
> other such subhuman ignoramuses?
Quite. We better find ways of people to discuss and think more
rationally, and Hollian inqury might be one way. General Semantics and
E-Prime is another, and then of course being educated in logic,
epistemology and argumentation theory is helpful. The question is how
to package this in easily learned bites. I have been thinking about
writing children's stories about philosophy for some time now...
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