Why is it called "Free Thought" instead of "Structured Rational Thought"? Perhaps because it really is neither structured nor rational?
Just a thought that occured to me while riding on my tractor. Spring means stuff to do on the farm.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Questions of the Day 04.06.11
1. What specific characteristic is it that separates a Public Intellectual (note 1) from you (assuming that you are not a self-annointed Public Intellectual).
2. What specifically is it that Public Intellectuals know that you don't know?
3. What knowledge is it that gives Public Intellectuals deeper moral insights than you have?
4. Is this knowledge which Public Intellectuals possess empirical? Is it replicable? Falsifiable? Can anyone verify its validity, or can only certain Intellectuals do so? If only certain Intellectuals can verify the validity of their special Intellectual knowledge, what special powers are involved? Can you obtain those powers?
5. If not empirical, is thisPublic Intellectual knowledge intuited, or perhaps revealed? Or was it always (universally) True, absolutely?
6. If the special knowledge which Public Intellectuals possess is not empirical, not intuited, not revealed, and not universally True, then how did the Public Intellectual acquire that knowledge?
7 If the special knowledge Intellectuals possess was conjured by Intellectuals without the use of absolutes such as first principles, then how does that knowledge differ from imagination or self-delusion?
8. Do years of sequestration in schoolrooms translate linearly to wisdom, unattainable by those with fewer years of sequestration?
Note 1: Here we are discussing Public Intellectuals who are self-proclaimed in the fashion of Pigliucci, Ruse, Dawkins, Chomsky, Singer, etc.
2. What specifically is it that Public Intellectuals know that you don't know?
3. What knowledge is it that gives Public Intellectuals deeper moral insights than you have?
4. Is this knowledge which Public Intellectuals possess empirical? Is it replicable? Falsifiable? Can anyone verify its validity, or can only certain Intellectuals do so? If only certain Intellectuals can verify the validity of their special Intellectual knowledge, what special powers are involved? Can you obtain those powers?
5. If not empirical, is thisPublic Intellectual knowledge intuited, or perhaps revealed? Or was it always (universally) True, absolutely?
6. If the special knowledge which Public Intellectuals possess is not empirical, not intuited, not revealed, and not universally True, then how did the Public Intellectual acquire that knowledge?
7 If the special knowledge Intellectuals possess was conjured by Intellectuals without the use of absolutes such as first principles, then how does that knowledge differ from imagination or self-delusion?
8. Do years of sequestration in schoolrooms translate linearly to wisdom, unattainable by those with fewer years of sequestration?
Note 1: Here we are discussing Public Intellectuals who are self-proclaimed in the fashion of Pigliucci, Ruse, Dawkins, Chomsky, Singer, etc.
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