Thomas Sowell Quoting Abraham Lincoln..
Facts and Truth don’t Change because of what YOU Want To Believe 🤔
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Now the tail wags the dog-faced pony-soldiers.
That's stupid, especially when he instructs them to count the tail as a leg.
Critical thinking skills also include things like calling people out on bullshit.
It’s a stupid question.
Because it asks a hypothetical question and then bait and switches it back to a literal question.
What is the lesson or point being made here? What is the purpose of this besides impressing simpletons?
Here’s a good question: why didn’t Lincoln send the slaves back to Africa?
The lesson here my fren (in modern times) is... if you call a man a woman, it doesn't make him one. And that's not a leg, so high tail outta there.
Except the statement wasn't "Change the word 'Tail' to 'Leg' ", it's "Count the tail as a leg". Very poor wording.
When you put a conditional statement, new information overrides pre-existing knowledge. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to do any theory what-so-ever, because "Well that's not like that in the real world!"
Just a random example: Imagine I ask you "Can you turn a sphere inside out, if you remove all physical laws and stay in a purely abstract mathematical world? ", it would be just wrong to reply "Well, physical laws exist, so no you can't".
can't remember the guy or the lecture, but the same social experiment was done in something like a Ted talk.
the guy showed a pair of lines to the audience and told them beforehand that they are not at all identical in any way and repeated to hammer in the point. then he asked them which is longer. everyone was split
then he revealled that they were the same lengths & explained just how powerful the conditioning of the mind can be when he primed them with that false statement first
Yeah I remember that video. I think it was in an university classroom of sort. Also explained how some (wrong) traditions just stuck with people through generations, because no one dared to question how it was created to begin with. If anyone has a link to that video, I'd love to see it again, I can't find it.