One of my favorite activities is going to the local library, browsing and picking a book (sometimes by authors I don’t know) based on how interesting they look. It’s been very rewarding so far! This one I just finished is hands down one of my favorite books- I plan to own a copy of it for detailed reference . Highly recommend it! The author is a mathematician and writes about:
- How to apply logic to real world ambiguous problems
- What constitutes rationality
- Being precise vs being pedantic
- How important logical and emotional considerations are towards taking positions
- How to break down one’s position with chains of logic, down to fundamental beliefs
- What constitutes a good argument: and examples of what’s not- Straw-man arguments, personal attacks
- Identifying false equivalences and false dichotomies
- Openness to changing positions in the face of new and conflicting evidence as a reflection of rationality
- Blind Loyalty vs Rational Support
- How to integrate abstraction and mathematical concepts such as Category Theory to analyze social problems to build a more empathetic outlook
- Why two logical people can still disagree with each other
- Where logic stops- the limits of logic
And more!
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