Thomas Sowell Quoting Abraham Lincoln..
Facts and Truth don’t Change because of what YOU Want To Believe 🤔
(media.greatawakening.win)
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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".