As we write these words a teenager addresses the United Nations about climate change and how adults across the globe are stealing her future with inaction and empty words.
I'm not that much of a fan of government intervention and more taxation. I obviously prefer action by well educated citizenry. Yet, I remember promoting applied science in my high school when I was fourteen, four decades ago, on a solar energy used in the household project, and getting the attention of my teacher, then winning the municipal research competition, and going to nationals, and being completely ignored when upon return from nationals my teacher and I went to administration with a draft MoU with the university so it sponsors research for high schoolers on renewable energy.
Forty years passed and curriculums did not change at all. There or here or anywhere.
It is just as if the folks owning the liveries and the gas lighting companies simply own all politicians everywhere. Didn't we see this happen before?
Remember our fundamental question: "of what is this a case?" and use it always when you are trying to make sense of anything.
With that in mind, let's see how we addressed fallacies:
197. Strength of Argument
I'm not that much of a fan of government intervention and more taxation. I obviously prefer action by well educated citizenry. Yet, I remember promoting applied science in my high school when I was fourteen, four decades ago, on a solar energy used in the household project, and getting the attention of my teacher, then winning the municipal research competition, and going to nationals, and being completely ignored when upon return from nationals my teacher and I went to administration with a draft MoU with the university so it sponsors research for high schoolers on renewable energy.
Forty years passed and curriculums did not change at all. There or here or anywhere.
It is just as if the folks owning the liveries and the gas lighting companies simply own all politicians everywhere. Didn't we see this happen before?
Remember our fundamental question: "of what is this a case?" and use it always when you are trying to make sense of anything.
With that in mind, let's see how we addressed fallacies:
197. Strength of Argument
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_toulmin-et-al-intro-to-reasoningstrength-activity-6579925651342585856-M_kI
198. Circling the wagons
198. Circling the wagons
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_teatru-radiofonic-mircea-albulescu-scrisoarea-activity-6580083951828811776-znoW
199. Types of fallacies
199. Types of fallacies
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_toulmin-et-alintro-to-reasoningpart-4-types-activity-6581747731453267968-3_Z0
200. Training on identifying fallacies in arguments
200. Training on identifying fallacies in arguments
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6581763125735940096-9EK3
201. A journey of a thousand miles is made of putting one step in front of another. Again and again.
201. A journey of a thousand miles is made of putting one step in front of another. Again and again.
202. Under - Average - Above
203. Marlboro Man, or
Beware Influencers
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6581957591352561664-_PAZ
If we learned anything, it is that fallacies are all around us and we simply love to adopt them without having a clue that we are simply "thinking" and acting at their mercy.
If we learned anything, it is that fallacies are all around us and we simply love to adopt them without having a clue that we are simply "thinking" and acting at their mercy.
Can we put a stop to it?
Let's go back and read again things we introduced before the last two weeks and let's see how we feel now.
Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.
InnovationTrek
ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu
ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org
InnovationTrek
ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu
ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org
