Adventures in Thought Space

  As an epistemologist, a student of knowledge, my understanding of learning and thinking are ever-evolving. I realized recently that there are a few issues I haven’t adequately addressed and wanted to improve extralogical reasoning’s treatment of them. For one, I’ve been so busy railing about what’s wrong with people’s understanding of knowledge that I haven’t spent ample time discussing its benefits, which I’ll do in the beginning. Though, as characteristic of my other works, my viewpoint will be more ideological than practical, my next objective is to stretch my analyses a little more into larger societal issues relating to learning. Given how poor most people’s understanding of knowledge is, the following will inevitably focus on failures in comprehension and application and their respective causes. But don’t underestimate the educational benefits of negative examples; most of extralogical reasoning’s understanding of knowledge comes from it.    Most of the following has been discu