Invitation to attend: "Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy," University of Zurich, 11-13 July 2025
This international workshop examines the understanding of reasoning in Chinese philosophy beyond formal logic, emphasizing cognition, intuition, and aesthetics as alternative modes of thought.
Critical Thinking & Pandemics: Argument from Authoritarian
The use of my usual silly math example illustrates why this is bad logic: Premise 1: The dear leader claims that 2+2 = 7. Conclusion: The dear leader is right.
Brooks: Producing something this stupid is the achievement of a lifetime
Thirty percent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child, indicating an alarming trend in literacy and reasoning capabilities.
The THINK phase involves the Instructor LM generating pseudocode that captures the underlying logic of a task, facilitating step-by-step reasoning for multiple instances.