3 Jun
2021
3 Jun
'21
9:03 p.m.
On 2021-06-03 15:24:29 deloptes wrote:
J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Yes; but teaching such concepts leads to people becoming able to think for
themselves,
which is anethema to authoritarians, be they corporate or government. :-) "We will
tell
you what to think."
The core tenets of General Semantics are also easy to grasp:
• Over-generalizing (labeling) leads to false conclusions (The map is not the territory)
What was true in the past is not necessarily true today
Generalizations about groups of people doesn't necessarily apply to individual
members
• Very few issues are two-valued
Leslie
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This surprises me not at all. It's the same
mentality that kept General
Semantics from being taught as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics
it would be sufficient if classical logic were thought at school
- conjunction
- disjunction
- equivalence
- implication
4 operations that most of the people do not understand - especially the
implication. this makes it possible to do false conclusions. Also it makes
it impossible to dispute over anything. Total mess!