Keith
Are you a Fool then?
"The jesters were given a power that no other person in the kingdom was
granted: the power to openly mock any noble he saw fit, even the King or
Queen. So long as it was done in a jesting manner, a jester could get away
with poking fun at any of the nobles shortcomings."
On 23 February 2017 at 06:22, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear Terry,
>
> Being shown the possibly faulty nature of our uninspected mental events is
> instructive for this who can see a use in being wrong.
> Many people don¹t enjoy being shown to be wrong in their social reasoning.
>
> If so much of our reasoning is social then we might establish social
> relations which are based on finding errors in our thinking.
> Following Socrates and Aristotle, that¹s what universities could look like.
>
> I struggle at the moment to get some people in my acquaintance to see the
> errors in their social readings of what Donald Trump says (and doesn¹t
> say).
>
> For me, the pleasure is in seeing how the trick works, not in being right
> or wrong.
>
> But then I find myself in the small society of deconstructive tricksters.
> Membership is free but not much dancing goes on.
>
> Cheers
>
> keith
>
>
>
>
>
> On 22/2/17, 3:41 pm, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
> studies and related research in Design on behalf of Terence Love"
> <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Thoughts?
> >
> >
> >http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-
> dont-change-our-min
> >ds
> >
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >
> >Terry
>
>
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