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24 Jan 2021 2 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
The Socratic method refers to a mode of cooperative argumentation or discourse between two or more individuals (in good will, that presupposition is really important - that is, the argumentation's purpose is to discover the truth, not to win an argum...
26 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
"Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myt...
![Counterinduction: The Productive Practice of Going Against Common Sense [Useful heuristics and tools of thought]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/103329.jpeg?action=fit&ar=1&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=2898e87ad9014b7c29b4fffffa98b9e9893e5e99544d233f321557c01d617286)
24 Jan 2020 4 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
William S. Burroughs was a bit of a weirdo without a doubt. Highly intelligent and very unusual, in pursuit of his own strange goals and searches. He had this awesome talent of telling the truth through lies (coincidentally, this is what was Plato's...
![Cut-up Method: Tzara, Burroughs and Approaching/Tapping Texts and Meaning Non-Linearly to Reveal Hidden and Non-Intended Meanings [Conceptual Heuristics and Tools]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/102518.jpeg?action=fit&ar=1&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=875a0c99d10cf2a4fb050a6b4e8139320aeaa8a44eeea49d9deac50ddaef5dcf)
21 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
This one is I believe particularly relevant and quite the scourge in many ways. Also known as the "is-ought problem" and first articulated by Scottish philosopher David Hume, it states that many claims are made about what ought to be, based on statem...
![Hume's Guillotine: The Is-Ought Problem [Useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thought/critical thinking]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/100165.jpeg?action=fit&ar=1&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=8ba57503dbb695dfda72a08783eb819d6d9c203cc44c2874fe5a198f586a6d70)
