The especially rigid dogmatist can be identified by his frequent assurances that he always thinks for himself.
May 272019
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
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.
Mar 122019
That there is nothing new under the sun is possibly the oldest argument under the sun.
Feb 182019
We can be sure, when we are told that all interpretation is biased, that an egregiously biased interpretation will shortly follow.