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Accurate thinking
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Accurate thinking
I’ve been carrying this hand-written note around
with me since high school. Note to parents: What is YOUR impressionable young
boy or girl reading when they think you’re not looking?
“There are people who think in a
way which I would simply call “accurate” thinking. They are people with
persistent, highly controlled intellectual habits. These people can be
recognized by four characteristics:
“They remain inexorably silent
if they have nothing to say which is at least formulated in such a way that it
could be tested.
“They only make assertions about
something when whatever this may be will stand up to a possible subsequent
test; with the reservation, however, that sometime in the distant future
something could be discovered that might lead to a revaluation of their
statement.
“They distinguish precisely in
what they say between that which they can prove and that which they cannot
prove.
“They object relentlessly to
something being said in such a way that it cannot be tested, or if it can be
tested it will not stand up to a rigorous repeat-test.”
Heinrich Scholz; mathematician, theologian
Quoted in:
Walter R. Fuchs, Cybernetics for the Modern Mind, p. 47, Rupert Hart-Davis Educational Publications and The Macmillan Company , 1971 (Translation)
Walter R. Fuchs, Cybernetics for the Modern Mind, p. 47, Rupert Hart-Davis Educational Publications and The Macmillan Company , 1971 (Translation)
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