In particular, I manage to dissolve a lot of philosophical paradoxes or arguments much quicker than I used to be able to.
Any particular approach you would like to cite there? I’ve found Peirce’s pragmatic maxim to be a good shorthand for a lot of that. “This is just word games with bad definitions.”
Any particular approach you would like to cite there? I’ve found Peirce’s pragmatic maxim to be a good shorthand for a lot of that. “This is just word games with bad definitions.”
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_map_is_not_the_territory is very important.
It’s also very helpful training to look at various paradoxes such as the Liar Paradox, The Unexpected Hanging Paradox, the Raven Paradox and so on.