On 2021-06-03 15:24:29 deloptes wrote: > J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > 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! > 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 -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.9 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
