Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Various Thoughts Of Philosophy About The Art Of Learning

By John Roff


Animals are mostly unaware that they exist. While most people might think that they've got more up their sleeve than most people, for the purposes of this discussion let's stick to considering them mostly instinctual creatures.

Animals are different from people simply because people have the ability to value. They can value things. They can consider things bad for themselves and for other people.

To figure out which is bad or good, we question. We ask about the world around us. We try to figure things out, to look at it from all angles to create informed decisions and value judgments.

Idiots end up phrasing insane sentences, hoping to somehow stumble onto an answer that fits their little heads. That rarely happens and in the rare event that it does, the answer will usually be lacking as they did not know where they meant to go with the question in the first place.

Asking questions is a matter of knowing what kind of answer you're looking for. Are you looking for a definitive, non-definitive or judgmental answer? Definitive answers, for example, are answers to questions in math or something else similarly, as their answers are simple and solid.

If your question is definitive, you'll find little confusion - only accountants and some scientists would require a more specific answer than the first one. The mark of a definitive questions is that there's no real argument.

On the other hand, there are questions both simple and highly complex that leave a person with no real answer short of one that works for them. These highly subjective questions require a person to use their own values and preferences to come up with an answer of their own - not a wrong answer, but not a universally correct answer either.

There are also questions that invite so much questioning that entire groups of people from a lot of different schools of thought, which allows them to answer a judgmental question with as many interpretations as possible to make sure that the final answer is as accurate as possible. This is thus one of the question types with the highest redaction rate.




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