• @[email protected]
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    Epistemology should be taught in primary school.

    I mean that unironically. Learning about simple principles like non-contradiction and logical fallacies can help inoculate against so much bullshit.

    With AI distorting the internet in every capacity, virtually everyone needs a new norm for evaluating whether their knowledge can be justified.

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      8 months ago

      Epistemology, Logic, and Science Literacy fite me. These are the tools you use to teach yourself, anything.

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      non-contradiction and logical fallacies can help inoculate against so much bullshit.

      That’s exactly why its not taught.

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      It should be part of a 12 year rhetoric program. I didn’t learn anything in English class after the 3rd grade. Granted, I was considered gifted, but you have a lot of slack to put in philosophical foundations and logic.

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      I have taught my children epistemology for this reason. It is THE key skill in the disinformation age.