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