/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7164282

I actually think people aren't natively able to think (reason) properly.

There is a course for that. Its called sentential and propositional logic.

As that course faded out in curriculums and Gender Studies blew up what you get is a population of educated people who hold some seriously retarded beliefs and can't figure out who is lying about anything, and has no confidence in science.

Not to mention poor overall educational attainment and intellectual ability.

It should be obvious- teach the kid to think, then give him material to chew on. But no- they think knowing how to reason is somehow commuted by the bullshit primary school experience. They think mathematics is logic.

What I think really caused formal logic to fall out of favor was the fact that political and religious belief- based on pure rhetoric- nearly never makes any logical sense.

You had the Philosophy department creating scientists and athiests who were coming over into the humanities, and refusing to believe all the garbage they were spewing.

Likewise, a smart kid able to reason would have serious problems with his parents's patent bullshit cultural baggage, cult/religious beliefs, and start questioning the ideals they hold dear.

Its pretty sad that, in this stage of time, most people hold irrational beliefs, think anything is a matter of opinion, and no one "really" knows the kinds of routine basic facts anyone in the sciences realizes.

Logic is learning how to separate the facts from the bullshit, the true from the not-true.

Once you have logic and reason, you can comprehend and know things. Otherwise, you're like most people, just straining to memorize a bunch of shit without anything but your feelings to guide you.