Let's say a person is sick. What is the cause of the disease? “It’s clear,” the doctor will say, looking at the test results, “the cause is an infection.” But is it?
No, this is not exactly what many understand by it. This is not always superficial logic and not always limited abilities in logic, when a person does not see more than 2-3 elements in the chain of cause-and-effect relationships, and one should not confuse it with the inability to make or understand hints
This is a fairly common scheme of manipulation, thanks to which it is possible to calm down the indignant seekers of justice. They are in any society in which the wrong system of values, relationships is imposed, the philosophy of which is built on consumption and all kinds of formal statuses
Many people think they understand the essence of the Dunning-Kruger effect by reading its description somewhere on Wikipedia or on any other popular resource
If you talk about something expressively, depicting the appearance of a deep understanding of the material and an interest in being understood, then the listeners may think that you are saying something very important, serious and correct, even if you are talking complete nonsense
This is a preliminary article, the purpose of which is to outline my perception and personal experience in the matter of prediction and prevention of the predicted for a separately considered person
I'm starting a series of notes on the meaning of life. Fortunately, the answer to the question about the meaning of life is well known to me, at least I think that it is good
It will be about internal contradictions in the logic of car drivers in relation to traffic police officers
This article provides an example of free reasoning according to the principle of "flow of thoughts"
With this article I close ALL questions to me personally, the essence of which boils down to the following: "How do you feel about such and such a movement, direction, trend, to such and such a political party?"
When reading the article on the fight against the devil, a misunderstanding of the following nature might arise: as if instead of solving the problem associated with your shortcoming, you need to forget about it and not remember it again
It is customary among the common people to say that everything bad comes from the devil. He is accused of tempting a person to do a bad deed
This is one of the most common logical mistakes, thanks to which you can successfully mislead entire hordes of people who thoughtlessly follow some kind of illusion, as well as profit from their stupidity
Our life is accompanied by such an important phenomenon as the "language of life circumstances"
Among people who responsibly approach the purity of their thoughts, there are those who achieve order in their heads through meditation. Meditation is different: both indoors and outdoors, with or without music, both in a passive position and in active movement
In the last article, you learned that logical errors are formal and informal. Roughly speaking, formal errors can be described by formal logic, expressed in the form of mathematical formulas
I remind readers that the reference options for solving problems proposed here are exclusively my opinion, and it has the right not to coincide with yours
In the first chapter, you learned about where logic errors can come from. These can be a wide variety of reasons: from intent to imperfection of the mind, from artistic techniques to linguistic reasons
The rule here is this: I offer my reference solutions for all problems, sometimes I accompany them with my thoughts, where it will be in the topic
Dear readers, I have already devoted quite a lot of time to communicating with people and teaching them a variety of things. If you haven't read about my teaching career yet, please go here
In the introduction, you learned about such important concepts as truth
This story is completely fictional, but it is based on a long-standing social phenomenon that is completely real
Many people with whom I had the pleasure to communicate, too often give not entirely correct estimates of the complexity of the activities of other people, and incorrectly compare their qualities and skills with the qualities and skills of these people
I bring to your attention my essay on what, perhaps, essays are needed for. This is a slightly edited text from my 2013 mailing list. Since the text has not lost its relevance, I decided to repeat the experiment here
The general could not sleep. Having poured himself a glass of water, he sat down at the table and leaned back in his chair to rest while
On a warm summer day on July 1, a young man came out of an inconspicuous house in one of the central streets and walked with a quick confident gait to the very center of the city
Dear readers, I offer you an experimental story. Your reaction is interesting. I'm not sure if I will do this at least once again, but I had to try
A group of young men and women continued to move along a small corridor, on the walls of which lighted torches hung. Looking around with curiosity, they walked in the direction of a heavy wooden door visible at the end of the corridor, tied with wrought iron bands
Once upon a time there was a young man who, like many other people of his age, disapproved of the current course of things. He was also perplexed about how mediocre adults are wasting their lives. He, too, had goals and a bursting energy to bring them to life
I worked as a university teacher for 11 years. Yes, don’t look that at the time of this writing I’m only 32 years old, I really taught there since 20 years old, there were reasons and abilities for that
On the Internet, you can find several interesting texts composed by ordinary people, but written on behalf of some powerful creatures or representatives of the behind-the-scenes global elite in order to transfer part of their secret knowledge to people or set them on the true path "before it's too late"
This is the final part of a series of articles that started here. It is also the most difficult to understand. The complexity is not due to the qualities of the reader or the author, it is due to the fact that understanding the language of life circumstances is not only a function of consciousness
Some people are able to "see" sounds and numbers in color and even taste them. We talk about a special way of perceiving reality - synesthesia
Any symbol necessarily means something. Our state, the Russian Federation, also has its own symbols - a coat of arms and a flag. Do we know their meaning? Research conducted on this topic has shown a complete concealment of all information
The author's blog under the nickname sibved contains interesting material about the fortress-star, which, according to the official history, existed a century and a half ago, and at the same time this fortress was eroded by the relief formed according to the official version by the ancient sea
Kungurskaya cave is one of the few in Russia that has been equipped for mass visits by tourists. It's amazing how, with such accessibility, little is said about its oddities, which have no explanation, but are demonstrated to everyone
Reincarnation theory
The answer to the question: "Is there life after death?" - give or try to give all the major world religions. And if our ancestors, distant and not so, life after death, was presented as a metaphor for something beautiful or, on the contrary, terrible, then a modern person to believe in Paradise or Hell described by religious texts is quite difficult. People have become too educated, but not smart when it comes to the last line before the unknown
Every summer, anyone who runs the risk of leaving the city faces the same problem - mosquitoes. These small insects can spoil a lot of blood, both literally and figuratively. In this situation, all that remains is to go and purchase some remedy for annoying insects
After heavy rains and seismic works on Monday, March 19, a huge rift formed in the East African Rift Valley, which indicates the coming continental transformations. The rift stretches for 3,000 kilometers in Kenya's Narok district. Its depth and width are over 15 meters