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by trendroid
3357 days ago
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>I won't say which camp I think Prof. Hájek falls into with this Aeon piece The way you put it in this comment, it may feel to some that you are suggesting the author is trying to indoctrinate. I highly recommend people to read the article itself to find that out. It's doing no such thing in my opinion and makes sure to not sound like having an agenda. The author may simply choose some examples that happen to increase reader's interest and hence make them finish the article and understand the concept better. He ends with this which is not how you indoctrinate someone: "Where does this leave us? Well, we did not manage to prove the existence of God, nor prove his non-existence. (I hope you are not too disappointed!) But that’s par for the course in philosophy – it rarely proves anything conclusively. Instead, I hope I have given you some sense of what philosophical reasoning is like, and how that reasoning can be stimulated and enhanced by the use of various heuristics. Along the way, we saw some instances of what followed from what (or not), exposed some sophisms, spotted some fallacies, and policed some of our reasoning." The fact is that our brains have been so incessantly bombarded with propaganda from different places that we start noticing it even when none exists. In other words, Apophenia. |
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An interesting point. I would say that everyone does have something they want you to believe - even if it's just pure skepticism - That's the point of teaching, after all (or you just find it fun to talk). We are trying to share what we believe is true, even if that belief is that we can't definitively say anything is true. I used to think such a stance as equality for both ends was being open-minded, but to some people (especially those with a firm opinion, be it wrong or right), I came across as promoting what they considered horribly wrong. They think that alot of (um, all of their) ideas are provable, definitive truth, so arguing against that point is - at least to them - "indoctrination" of a different kind.
Funny how that all works out, no?