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asked 9 years ago

I’ve heard all kinds of criticisms about you that you have logical thinking and therefore understand analytical philosophy, but thought, and understanding reality and the world in general, is made up of other things – psychology, sociology, anthropology, things that you pretty much reject with disgust.
What is your response?
Don’t you think that makes your ideas disconnected from reality, which depends on many other things besides rational thinking and logic, because as you know, over 90 percent of what a person does is not rational at all, even if he thinks he is completely rational. If you like, psychology (intuitions, impulses) trumps logic and rationality.
In short, thought refines expertise, while disciplines such as the social sciences, not just the natural sciences, provide skills in analytical thinking and logic.
What are you saying?

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מיכי Staff answered 9 years ago

I don’t reject them with disgust, but I don’t believe in them as disciplines that much. When some people are too lazy to think or don’t know how to think, they always use the argument that life is not logic and there is much beyond logic. They don’t even understand this statement itself. Logic is a necessary condition even if it is not sufficient. Contradictory things don’t mean anything, but coherent things are only possible and not necessarily true. The fact that people act irrationally does not prevent the logical analysis of their actions and thoughts. Social sciences do not provide many skills, certainly not in logic and analytical thinking.

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