I never actually had a class on how to figure out whether something made sense or not. I was left to figure it out for myself. I guess in school they’re only supposed to tell us stuff that makes sense, so we didn’t have to figure it out then. Out in the real world after school though, sometimes we hear things and it’s up to us to figure out whether to believe them or not; especially in these highly-charged political times.
When we hear something that kind of sounds true, but we’re not sure, wouldn’t it be nice if there were a few simple rules one could apply, to determine if the premise made sense; something concrete that would inform us as to whether what we were considering were true, not true, or we needed more information to make that determination?
Maybe a school of thought. It could be called “logic”. What if we all had the same underlying perspective and could agree on whether the starting point for each conversation actually had any basis in fact, before we started building arguments on it?
Just wondering…
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