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Thoughts on Intellectual standards podcasts - Intellectual humility


{"ops":[{"insert":"It appears to me that non-Aristotelian logic lies behind much of the virtues"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"For instance, the principle of non-allness (which replace Aristotelian's allness (\"A is all A\")) seems to imply intellectual humility as a direct implication"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"So making the non-Aristotelian logic foundation of these virtues more explicit by explaining non-aristotelian logic might \"install\" irreversibly a very strong foundation for intellectual humility to grow for instance"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The \"extensional device\" known as \"etc.\" in general semantics, which is an application of general semantics's non-Aristotelian logic exemplify this."},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Only non-Aristotelian logic can solve the dilemma of enquiry and learning by explicitly showing that we can know parts of a topic while at the same time not knowing other parts of it."},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"That is opposed to the Aristotelian implication of it's allness principle which imply that a person can know *all* about a topic and that he or she either know *all* about a topic or know *nothing* about it. A person may not admit to this attitude when asked but this kind of attitude nevertheless is the default attitude most people have at an unconscious level because it is an implication of Aristotelian logic."},{"attributes":{"indent":2,"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"About interests in things, I think these interests are related to how we value these topics or how much we recognize their value."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Thinking about intellectual humility, I think that learning computer programming is a great way to develop some level of intellectual humility as the computer gives accurate feedback on our inevitable thinking errors and we can notice the normal frequency and ubiquity of out thinking and acting errors (when the challenge is adjusted to our skills level)."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"About \"absolute truth\" like \"we are talking to each others right now\" - there is the peculiar happenstance of D.M.T. trips, drug trips from this powerful entheogenic drug called dimethyltryptamine ( or ayahuasca when taken as a tea) where people reports being transported to \"other worlds\" and having complex discussions with all kinds of other entities, something bringing back special knowledge from their trips and often reporting the \"realness\" as seeming more \"real\" than what we usually consider \"real\"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}


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