Summer Vacation

I return once again to blabber, hopefully, about something interesting after a well spent extended summer. I believe I will be continuing with the same line here, talk about psychology, post photographs and random links, but I would also like to include politics. That is because recently, I’ve been really pissed off about certain political opinions relying on simple populism. Basically, in my opinion, politics should rely on facts, not beliefs. (I’m counting Bible and other religious texts as non-facts because they lack scientific evidence and I’m sorry if this insults somebody).

To sum up, I’ll be getting back to writing, and I’m trying to have politics included in some form. Meanwhile, enjoy this banter:

I had this bolded ending text thing going on, so I don't know, never stop bantering I guess.

Ways of knowing

In regard of an exam tomorrow, I've published a poll about the sources of knowledge, and this text.

According to a textbook I'm currently reading, people gain knowledge about the environment mainly through four different ways: authority, observation, logic, and intuition. One may argue that some are better than the others but I'm not here to judge. Much.

The four ways of knowing may be used simultaneously as well as separately, or one may put a higher priority on some, that is, put things on top of other things.

I had to do it.

For example, belief systems such as religion and government mainly value authority and intuition over observation and logic, whereas the priorities are quite the opposite for science. Philosophy, on the other hand, resembles science in many ways, except it values logic over observation. To make things more clear:

from most to least important ways of knowing

Religion / Government: Authority-Intuition-Logic-Observation

Science: Observation-Logic-Intuition-Authority 

Philosophy: Logic-Observation-Intuition-Authority

In conclusion, the ways in which we gather information are principally quite few and that different belief systems rely on different sources of information. It's up to people to judge what to accept as valid information, and the different variations in priorities are many in number. I do realise that this post might bias the outcomes of the poll but honestly I don't give a flying fudge.

Never stop thinking, again.