It is natural to demand special consideration for your feelings if you can’t think.
Jun 172019
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Jun 032019
We search for truths, and find equilibria.
May 272019
The especially rigid dogmatist can be identified by his frequent assurances that he always thinks for himself.
May 212019
To hide one’s beliefs takes effort, and attenuates them.
May 202019
Deductive conclusions, like the weather, are highly sensitive to initial conditions.
May 032019
There are two kinds of philosophers: those who begin with the conclusions, and fill in with egregious reasoning; and those who begin with the reasoning, and arrive at egregious conclusions.
Apr 292019
No one who thinks of himself as open-minded can be persuaded otherwise.
Apr 262019
Never end up literal, but always start that way.
Apr 172019
If it wasn’t for cognitive biases, I’d have no cognition at all.
Apr 012019
As a competent worker will be promoted into incompetence, so a valuable method or technique will infiltrate disciplines in which it is useless or harmful.