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What logical fallacy is made in this argument that seems to prove that learning is futile?
To learn is to gain more knowledge.
Having more knowledge means having more that one can forget.
∴, the more one learns, the more one forgets.
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Seeking Feedback on Jeffrey Kaplan's YouTube Philosophy Lectures
I hope this post finds you well. I recently stumbled upon Jeffrey Kaplan's philosophy lectures on YouTube, and I'm curious if anyone with academic credit has watched them and can offer some feedback.
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Visual representation of numbers?
When we learn mathematics we are given these visual representations of numbers, as things become more advanced we learn the idea of a 'number line', my question is how valid is the idea of a number ...
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Which Philosophers Wrote Directly About Education?
I assume the list is short, so can someone please list which philosophers (not pure educationalists) wrote entire books or treatises dedicated to education? I can name a few, for example, John Dewey's ...
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On philosophy PhD programs?
It's understood that U.S. Ph.D. programs are designed to be completed in 5 years (2 years of coursework/3 years of a thesis), whereas UK D.Phil programs are only 3 years (just a thesis) but require a ...
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Hard stuff made easy?
There is a philosophical assumption, inspired by educational didactics, which consists of thinking that any concept, no matter how intricate, can be presented in simple words and easily understood if ...
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How did the Sophists contribute to modern education?
I'm taking a course in Pedagogical Trends and we've studied about Sophists, Socartes and Plato.. So, I want to know how did the Sophists contribute to modern education?
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How "fairly sophisticated" could the intersection of mathematics and ethics be?
On page 42 of A Theory of Justice (the 1999 edition), Rawls says that moral theorizing might eventually involve "fairly sophisticated mathematics," and later in the book (page 105) he ...
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A Take on Application of Mathematics
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"To introduce rigorous mathematics, I believe it's essential to discuss the whys and establish a core relation between mathematics and application. Mathematics begins with ...
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Plato's Republic education system
What is the education system that Plato proposed?
E.g. the United States education system might be:
3-4 basic counting and communication
5-6 basic math, reading, writing, shapes, and time
7-11 deeper ...
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Purism / Purist Attitudes in Educational Philosophy? [closed]
As I look back on my education over the years, I have been a gradual disconnect in students between learning for the sake of understanding your field, craft, profession, where this alone is the ...
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Has the word Ancient.....become Ancient?
As a former History Instructor, as well as one who earned a Graduate Degree in History-("many moons ago"), words, such as, Ancient, Medieval, Modern and Contemporary, were commonplace and ...
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Is Political Correctness the enemy of Universalist Philosophy? [closed]
Political Correctness, was a sociocultural movement that began more than 30 years ago in the American Academy-(primarily within various the Humanities and Social Sciences). However, in the past few ...
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Should History Educators reemphasize chronological aptitude?
As a former History Instructor I was absolutely stunned by the widespread chronological ignorance displayed by many of my students. I was told by most of my students that they rarely learned about ...
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If Confucius was alive and started a modern school today, what would it look like practically?
Peace and Blessings. Recently I have been researching ancient practices in regards to teaching. One of such that I came across was Confucius and his approach to education. I am not well versed in ...
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What Does Dewey Mean By Educational "Aims" and "Ends"
In Chapter 8 of Democracy and Education, Dewey begins to discuss aims in education. He starts off by defining the nature of aims.
At first I was under the impression that he was referring to the goals ...
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What language similar to computer coding do undergrad philosophy majors learn?
Please see bold below. What "logic language" is this?
Looking for a philosophy book... : LSAT
It's not worth picking up a philosophy book for the LSAT, unless you're looking to build up ...
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Going into philosophy as a computer scientist
I have a bachelor's degree in philosophy (from way back) and a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science (just graduated). Now I am exploring going back into philosophy for my PhD. In what ...
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Hume on Induction vs Education
Hume thinks that mental ideas are built upon repeated observations and habituation, namely by induction. As far as I know, the principal alternative to this view is given by Descartes, postulating ...
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Which Philosopher would you recommend for learning about the implied philosophy of gifted education?
I'm searching for a philosopher who either commented on gifted education or someone whose writings would critique/applaud gifted education in America. Someone who might be (or have been) a vocal ...
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Is there a way to tell which philosophers are correct in their musings? [closed]
Is quoting an authoritative source a useful or effective way to demonstrate that an assertion is correct?
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How should "knowledgeability" be defined? Is it merely w.r.t. to best scientific knowledge? [closed]
How should "knowledgeability" be defined?
Is it merely w.r.t. to best scientific knowledge? What about things that science cannot measure?
Or are there other "reasonable" forms of knowledge? Why ...
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How to answer people who would claim that "philosophy is useless"?
How to answer people who would claim that "philosophy is useless"?
My take:
"Philosophy, since it by def. considers fundamental matters, such as existence, cannot be rationally neglected, because ...
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How did Ivan Illich reconcile his dislike of academia with having been the vice rector of a university for years?
Did Ivan Illich apologize for being part of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico or his subsequent teaching at different universities? At some point he formed the opinion that schools cannot not ...
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At what point - if at all - can I call myself a philosopher? [closed]
I've been studying philosophy quite intensively for a year and a half.
But when I say studying, I mean on the way to work, in audio format when I walk the dog and a lot of my free time.
I do not ...
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Is rhetoric philosophy?
In rhetoric, students are primarily concerned with making arguments that are convincing. Rhetoricians who deviated from the truth were rightly skewered in Socrates' time for their problematic "...
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Are there any book recommendations for my philosophy teacher?
I'm seeking recommendations for a book to buy for my philosophy teacher, who is leaving my sixth form at the end of this year, so I would quite like to give him a gift as thanks for his talented ...
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John Dewey Interest and Discipline
In Chapter 10 of the book Democracy and Education by John Dewey, what does Dewey mean when he writes the following:
The school cannot immediately escape from the ideals set by prior social ...
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Democracy of Education by John Dewey
What does it mean when he states, “Education is the laboratory in which philosophic distinctions become concrete and are tested.”
This is in John Dewey's Democracy and Education, Chapter 24: ...
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Why can't we learn what we are not interested in? [closed]
The school system, as we know it, is and has been shaping students to fit the system in which they live. Throughout this process, the students are forced to learn (mostly memorize) subjects in which ...
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Really original ideas in philosophy papers?
Plagiarism is wrong, no question. Searching the internet before writing a paper might help, but philosophy is done not only in English. There are philosophy publications of all sorts in other ...
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How can I apply logical positivism in the philosophy of education?
How can I apply logical positivism in the philosophy of education?
How would I use logical positivism to explore why teachers teach (objectives), what should be taught (curriculum) and how should ...
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Were any pre-Socratic philosophers interested in building schools/academies?
Plato, as a lot of people know created the Platonic Academy, which focused on teaching many subjects, but didn't any pre-Socratic philosophers think of making an academy/school for teaching subjects ...
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What does it take for someone to be recognized as a philosopher [closed]
So, the other day i was wondering, what does it take to become a recognized philosopher? Perhaps wisdom? Perhaps the ability to think? Perhaps I need academic education? I couldn't quite find an ...
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Best way to start philosophy? [duplicate]
I'm a software engineer, have a passion for philosophy. But I have no background in human science, but I guess I'm good at logic. Can you provide a profound study path to philosophy? What are the best ...
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Why's math more abstruse than philosophy? [closed]
'Abtruse' is intended to signify 'complicated to understand' and 'perplexing'.
This feels true, as intelligent laypeople can understand unsolved philosophy problems and competing possible solutions, ...
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Why do we not refer to authors as often in science classes than in philosophy classes?
Looking at science and philosophy courses online there is a striking difference in the style of teaching. In philosophy courses, it is very common - if not systematic - to refer to who first phrased a ...
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Education of civil servants
I was wondering what would happen, if we required the people who serve in top positions in a democracy (president...) to go through a dedicated school, that would be free for anyone who wants to ...
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Is it possible to consolidate the philosophical traditions coming from different cultural spheres into a single unified philosophical cannon?
Most entry level philosophy courses tend to focus almost exclusively on Western Philosophy. They also tend to follow a historical narrative that follows the evolution of western thinking, as opposed ...
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Can I pursue philosophy while studying mathematics?
I am a math major and I currently am preparing for admissions in a masters program.
Though late, but I realised that I have interest in philosophy as well and I think I want to pursue it ...
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How important is studying higher mathematics for graduate study in philosophy?
I am planning to apply to phd programs in philosophy. I am majoring in philosophy but I also have the opportunity to complete a second major in math (I have a few more classes to go).
I'd like to ...
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How to rate philosophy essays?
I might end up teaching philosophy in Finnish lukio/gymnasium. I will not get an opportunity to practice teaching it - I do get to practice teaching mathematics a fair deal, though. (The situation is ...
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What exactly is a non-analytic method of thinking? Any examples of widely accepted ways of nonstructural thinking methods? [closed]
A.S. analytic and systemic definitions I mainly used from here, but there might be more general or specific meanings I am not aware of that is not covered in that link
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Maslow quote about the student questioning the teacher
Maslow has a quote that i cannot find... perhaps someone can assist.
in general he spoke that a student that questions the teacher is often called a troublemaker (of course paraphrased)
Does anyone ...
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What are the properties of Mathematical Objects?
I have been thinking a lot about how one knows when an observation contains mathematical elements. Many years ago when I was in school, I found that there was often little time taken out to discuss ...
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How to approach or consider racist philosophers?
I encountered the Wikipedia article on scientific racism, which attests to some famous philosophers' racism (eg Kant, Voltaire), whose works I`ll read about while self-learning philosophy. Their ...
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What makes a student good at philosophy? [closed]
I studied philosophy at undergrad, and it was a complete disaster! I was told at 10 I would have a phd in any subject I wanted, took and easily passed all the toughest SAT papers at high school, etc.. ...
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How to read Dante's Divine Comedy [closed]
Maybe this question was asked before, but given this large platform, I couldn't resist to ask
Years ago I started reading the first part of the Divine Comedy (in German), Inferno. To this day I read ...
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Are there any philosophy books for an intelligent nine-year-old?
I would like to buy some books on philosophy for the child of a friend. He is very intelligent and mathematically able and clever for a nine-year-old. I remember near that age really enjoying the idea ...
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Do we have an obligation to respect our teachers? [closed]
Many philosophers teach us to respect those who are teaching us. For example, one of the five classics of the Confucian canon [The Classic of Rites - Liji] claims in "Record of Education" that:
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