Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. — Mary Ellen Kelly
Wikipedia briefly defines “magical thinking” as “nonscientific causal reasoning,” and it can be broadly applied to all kinds of superstitious behavior. We all know someone who believes [...]
I personally have a very difficult time understanding how anyone ever got by using just a slide rule, yet the Apollo astronauts took them to the moon to make any calculations there that they needed to. I sit there and think that it requires someone to examine the distance between two marks on the rule [...]
In the one and only philosophy class I was ever required to take in college, the professor defined philosophy as:
The sustained effort to think clearly.
Now, granted, this was an intro class, so we also delved into the different “branches” of philosophy, like metaphysics, aesthetics and epistemology. However, his original definition of philosophy is what stayed [...]
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