WSJ 10/14/2021 By Daniel Henninger Meet Joe Biden, existentialist philosopher. Another of the world’s famous existentialist philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre, wrote a book called “Being and Nothingness.” Extending Sartre’s ideas on nothingness, Mr. Biden recently said: “Every time I hear, ‘This is going to cost A, B, C or D,’ the truth is, based on the commitment that I made, it’s going to cost... Read more
Archive for the ‘Critical Thinking’ Category
Biden and Nothingness
October 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Biden, Critical Thinking, StupidityThe Lab-Leak-Theory Cover-Up – James B. Meigs, Commentary Magazine
September 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Deep State, Liberal Press, Ruling Class, ScienceJuly/August 2021
‘Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here,” a writer named Apoorva Mandavilli recently posted on Twitter. It would have been easy to scroll right past the comment—Twitter is full of people ranting about...
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The Baloney Detection Kit
August 13 | Posted by mrossol | Critical Thinking, Interesting, Personal Development, ScienceBrain Pickings, originally published January 5, 2014. Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934–December 20, 1996) was many things — a cosmic sage, voracious reader, hopeless romantic, and brilliant philosopher. But above all, he endures as our era’s greatest patron saint of reason and critical thinking, a master of the vital balance between skepticism and openness. In The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a... Read more