Hey what's the most important and helpful thing you learned
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Hey what's the most important and helpful thing you learned
important to you.
and also helpful to you.
if you could, please said briefly why, and it would be great to hear your thoughts!
if you do not know, and if possible, it would be great if you didn't comment as to not clutter up the thread, thanks
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Re: Hey what's the most important and helpful thing you lear
As for the most important/helpful piece of philosophy I've read somewhere I would have to really thing long and hard about that one. I would say the challenge of reading Kant was a tough one and one which proved to be very fruitful (including the above reason).
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2. The second most important thing I learned was to know how important it is to recognize, name, and call out the user of, logical fallacies.
3. The third most important lesson I learned was to know to back away from arguing with complete imbeciles and devout theists. I am still not good at practicing this learned lesson.
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* that's one of the most important lessons in general, where or do you rememebr when you first learned this? or the most prominent memory of learning this?
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What are the key reasons why? This would be helpful, especially since you mentioned it's used in real life which I take to mean things we do in life every day.-1- wrote: the law of the excluded middle.
Would this be close to what you meant?
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My subjective view/opinion/emotion is just as valid as someone more intellectual and/or better educated or as someone in a leadership/authority role.
That does not mean that my subjective perception is necessarily correct, but that does not directly imply that anyone else's is either.
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I use it in real life in developing the conclusion of an argument. I apply it to real life situations. For instance, if someone says, "the table statue is a doorstop, but it is not a doorstop when it's used for something else, so it goes through a value-transformation", then I apply the law of excluded middle and i show that the table statue does not go through a value tranformation, instead, its reference is changed, and hence it is not a self-contradiction for it to be once a door stop, once something else, without going through a value transformation.Xoxo wrote:What are the key reasons why? This would be helpful, especially since you mentioned it's used in real life which I take to mean things we do in life every day.-1- wrote: the law of the excluded middle.
Would this be close to what you meant?
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I second this by adding that the greatest clarity I had gained is in how differently we all thinkGraphicsGuy wrote:I have not studied philosophy, but I will weigh in that the most important thing I (have) learned is that nobody knows what they are doing in this life. No one knows the ultimate "purpose" or meaning of existence. No one has all the answers. One person's "way" does not apply to the masses or even to another individual for that matter.
My subjective view/opinion/emotion is just as valid as someone more intellectual and/or better educated or as someone in a leadership/authority role.
That does not mean that my subjective perception is necessarily correct, but that does not directly imply that anyone else's is either.
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Why this is a helpful lesson: Never mind how revered the name - consider the idea on its own merit.
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by Greta, 11/8/2017 :)
Most people notice far more about us than we think, but care far less.
Happy people do things, unhappy people try to tear others down.
Pessimism can be replaced with realism if one does not fear accusations of being "cold" for failing to play (Berne's) "Ain't It Awful?" game.
Correcting misinformation online doesn't get the point across as well as providing alternative, more correct, information.
People are more like ants than they realise. One checks others' morality to see if they are "one of us" before deciding to cooperate or attack, the other checks scent.
We are all innocent - thrust screaming and clueless into an overwhelming and strange reality. From there almost everyone just does the best he or she can, while they can.
With age, authenticity becomes ever more important than others' opinions.
Until you can be happy within no change in your circumstances will make you happy.
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