The Dyad Of Words

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Words are consisted of only 2 parts:

1. Things

Yes, words are consisted of things. Things like computer, forest, walking, sleeping, nice... these are all words which represent things. But this is not what reasoning is.

2. Logical links

Logical links are what reasoning is made of.

Logical links are words such as
-if, then, if, not then,
-only if, then, only if, not then
-or,
-and,
-means, doesnt mean
-proves,
-disproves,
-cannot exist with, cannot exist without.
-can exist with, can exist without
-includes, excludes
-negation of logical link (opposite logical link)
-cause
-result
-cost
-is, isnt
-does
-contains, doesnt contain
-better, worse
-more important, less important
-equal, not equal
-same, different
-greater, smaller
-changes, doesnt change
-negates, doesnt negate
-outweighs, doesnt outweigh

Why am I telling you this? Its because people in schools learn a lot about things, but they dont learn much about logical links  and how logical links specifically work.

Logical links are crucial for reasoning.

Without logical links and negations of logical links, proper thinking is impossible.

Logical links are all about relations of things.

What relationship is between A and B?

Does A only exist if B exists?

Just learning that A exists and that B exists tells you nothing about their relationship.

Thus, schools should probably teach about logical links, because it seems to me that most people are clueless about what logical links are, and those who arent clueless didnt learn about them in school but on their own research.

Logical links are what reasoning is all about.

All reasoning is made only of logical links.

Its not possible to reason without using logical links.

Thus, the more logical links person learns, the more person's reasoning ability improves.

Thus, logic can indeed be learned. Its not just owned by smart people.

Logic can be easily learned if person learns logical links and learns their meanings.

When you learn a new language, learning logical links is a priority for being able to speak it.
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@Best.Korea

OMG, I think you are YoungHoon Kim.
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Well, he is Korean.
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I wish I was taught how to think logically in school. At least in college, I took a philosophy class that was all about Logic and Critical Thinking--the actual name of the class--and it was one of the most beneficial classes to me I believe. It taught me formulas for how to think of premises, conditions, contentions, and other factors of debate and logical reasoning. I think more rationally from what I learned, and I am smarter from it. 

Honestly, I don't believe I'm a very smart person. I do think I have an unbridled amount of creativity and imagination that allows me to come up with unique ways in my mind to understand how to learn how to be smart. When I was younger, I had trouble with understanding reality because I would lean back on my reasoning that came from the imagination part of my mind, and I wouldn't realize it. My presuppositions of people would be very off, and I would be totally surprised by it. I also think dark thoughts sometimes, but I choose not to entertain them because I do not want to be desensitized and my actions irl to follow in form.

I went through all of high school, and no one taught me how to present my ideas in a respectful and articulate, concise manner. This frustrated me so much because I had big ideas, but I didn't know how to express them through my words so they would remain abstract in my mind. I felt like a blank sheet of paper to those around me or maybe a paper full of random doodles struggling to have any structure and coherency, and as such no one could really recognize what I believed because I couldn't show it.

Writing and speaking have helped me better articulate myself because it is such great practice. I might make a separate forum post about the ways I have trained myself because they are very interesting to me, and I haven't heard about the concepts anywhere very much. It's more about the connections I find between two seemingly unrelated topics, but I then build a bridge of association that links them together in which the result serves as a mental tool or practice to better help me learn how to think and express myself through language 
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I went to school for 12 years and no one ever told me what premises are or what deductive reasoning is, or what inductive reasoning is, or what rhetoric is.

Somehow they left it out.

Basically, education fills your mind with bunch of information, but doesnt teach the single most important information which all great thinkers used and relied on in all their work.

System forces people to read many books completely unrelated to formal logic.

Only when I started studying from internet sources is where I learned about information which were crucial to help me understand how logic works. School didnt help at all other than teaching me how to read and write.

12 years wasted on bunch of irrelevant nonsense which was never needed.
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I think there are some classes that still hold relevance and importance like basic mathematics, basic science, and history. But the question is how much content from these subjects should be taught before they become unnecessary for the large part? 
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Well, I barely remember anything from school.

So if out of 30000 classes over 12 years, person remembers almost nothing years later, its kinda useless and a waste of time.

One should learn that which he has interest in.
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With the example of basic math, we use it all of the time. We use it a lot when handling money. We add and subtract items throughout the day. I would also say history is important.

Though I would agree that students are not remembering because they don't see the importance of most of the knowledge they are being taught, I would also say it is partly because of the way the information is being distributed. Classrooms are not engaging places especially if one looks at the older grades, and, because there are a lot of things we are required to learn in school that we don't care about, this creates a culture of being uninterested in the pursuit of education itself which further degrades the ability of retention


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Well, I barely remember anything from school.
I doubt that this is an accurate statement.

You may not choose to utilise a lot of your formatively programmed data.

It will just have been stored, rather than erased.

The ongoing necessity of data manipulation is dedicated to the here and now.

And you will still utilise essential learned information, such as literacy and numeracy.
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Words
...ebuc...

Words abound,
And then there are,
So many more concepts,
Than there are words.

Words within,
There exists so much more meaning,
Than there are concepts,
Within the language of words.

Words without,
So many words,
Lacking depth of expression,
As felt in our soul.

Words of intellect,
The philosophers tool,
Spinning our thoughts and our thinking,
While orbiting all truths.

Words of observation,
Such varied perceptions,
From similar sensorial experiences,
Of our known reality.

Word supon words,
Baffles the mind,
Inside-outs our consciousness,
And fulfills our needs.

Words of war,
Words of peace,
Words have power,
Words help us release.

Words to our music,
Words come in our sleep,
Words all around us,
Words make us weep.

Words have a function,
Words guide us the way,
Words fill our minds,
Words give us our say.








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What are words
If you really don't mean them
When you say them
What are words
If they're only for good times
Then they're done
When it's love
Yeah, you say them out loud
Those words, they never go away
They live on, even when we're gone

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I often say things I dont mean. Most people do it without even knowing, but I at least know.
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I often say things I dont mean. Most people do it without even knowing, but I at least know.
Which means you are aware when you are dishonest.
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.." Roosevelt used his First Inaugural Speech to outline his plan for the Great Depression."...

.." So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.... " Franklin D. Roosevelt


.." Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry
Be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate


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.." Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry
Be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
It must be very comforting to the homeless to know they don’t have to worry,  just be happy.
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A Puppet On String
..ebuc….
A puppet on string,
Dangles and dances,
Controlled by the master,
It bows and prances.

Free from hard choices,
Free from minds will,
Free from pregnancy
Free from the pill.

Oh to be a puppet,
A puppet is free,
Free from decisions,
It smiles with glee.

My puppet is attentive,
My puppet is smart,
It lives in a container,
It does not fart.

A puppet on string,
A wooden delight,
No weight problems,
And reflects all light.

The King is master,
The string they pull,
Love thy King,
Or face their ill will.