by Peter | Feb 23, 2021 | 3 Kinds of Thinking
Things are not always as they seem. For example, it might seem obvious that the earth is still and that the sun, moon, planets and stars orbit around it. For thousands of years this is what everyone believed, until Copernicus demonstrated that all the observations...
by Peter | Feb 22, 2021 | 3 Kinds of Thinking
Let us now consider the nature of thinking. A Self can be doing something, or having something done to it. In logical terms it can be a subject or an object. All thinking presupposes the existence of a subject, a being with some kind of awareness and mental activity...
by Peter | Feb 21, 2021 | 3 Kinds of Thinking
There are two main kinds of objective thinking. The first does not, in theory at least, need a world: the second operates in a world. The first is a priori thinking – it is reasoning from first principles: the second is empirical thinking, involving measuring and...
by Peter | Feb 20, 2021 | 3 Kinds of Thinking
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June Robbie Burns My life does not only consist of facts and logic. I listen to music, watch films and plays, appreciate beauty, read novels and poetry. I have a heart as well as a head, I engage with my...
by Peter | Feb 19, 2021 | 3 Kinds of Thinking
If you interview a successful person, there will come a point in which they will identify a key moment in their lives that changed everything. It could be the decision to start a business; to try again after bankruptcy, a serious illness or injury; a move to a new...
by Peter | Feb 18, 2021 | 3 Kinds of Thinking
Is the Cartesian paradigm still fit for purpose, or should it be replaced by one starting with action? How can and should we decide? Put another way, which comes first, action or thinking? It’s a bit like the chicken and the egg. Perhaps we normally think first,...
