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What's an easy yet useful skill that everyone should learn? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 9 months ago by Therealmglitch to c/[email protected]

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[–] Adalast 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Formal Logic. Please, can this be a full k-12 course like English and Math? Just learn to think, analyse, and correlate ideas in ways that are communicable. Learn what the logical fallacies are and how to avoid them. Train a functional bullshit detector. This world would be so much better off if the bulk of the population could understand what a confirmation bias was. As much as I hate to link to a Grammarly blog post, it gives good examples. Obviously all of it needs to be made age appropriate, but we never bother to actually teach people how to think, we just expect them to know and that has not been working out too well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

that's informal logic. formal logic is mathematical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_logic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic#Formal_logic

[–] Adalast 2 points 9 months ago

You are correct, I have studied both (math degree). Both need to be trained though. Informal logic helps a lot to notice the nonsensical statements that can be made that satisfy the rules of formal logic, but still don't operate in reality.