deepstash
Beta
Deepstash brings you key ideas from the most inspiring articles like this one:
Read more efficiently
Save what inspires you
Remember anything
11
Key Ideas
Save all ideas
Becoming a logical person involves cultivating intellectual habits and skills that may seem simple, but are only achieved after lots of education and training.
280 SAVES
451 READS
When we're not paying sufficient attention to a situation, it is easy to make mistakes in reasoning.
The logical person has to train himself to always pay attention, even in familiar situations.
288 SAVES
416 READS
If the fact is an existing thing, then access it to establish its factualness.
If you cannot establish factualness by direct evidence, then test the authenticity and reliability of the indirect evidence.
264 SAVES
355 READS
Our ideas are the way our minds understand the objective world. Clear ideas consistently reflect that world, while vague ideas give a distorted view of the world.
The logical person is always testing his ideas for accuracy.
265 SAVES
330 READS
The logical person understands that his ideas are based on things that exist.
Many ideas may seem true at first, but when you spent time looking into the sources of those ideas, you'll find they originated in legends.
250 SAVES
310 READS
Ideas should not be a product of pure subjectivism, but must always touch base with the facts in the objective world from which the ideas were born. (e.g., the idea of a "cat" should refer to an actual cat.)
This is much harder to do with more complex ideas, such as capitalism and socialism.
248 SAVES
274 READS
We can only communicate our ideas if we use words that accurately express those ideas. Finding the right words could be difficult. In such a case, we should go back to the source of the idea to bring clarification.
246 SAVES
273 READS
Logic is about finding out if statements are true or false, and the ability to express ideas clearly.
284 SAVES
314 READS
"Vague" and "ambiguous" originates from Latin words that mean "wandering."
A logical person avoids vague and ambiguous language. He doesn't use language that dances around ideas but uses precise vocabulary, so the listener knows exactly what he is talking about. If he refers to complex terms such as freedom or equality, he ensures to define his understanding of the word before proceeding.
255 SAVES
287 READS
Evasive language does not directly state what a speaker has in mind. It results in two problems:
If we consistently use evasive language, we may eventually believe our own bad rhetoric.
240 SAVES
272 READS
The purpose of logic is to arrive at the truth. There are two basic forms of truth:
Logical truth is founded upon ontological truth.
253 SAVES
313 READS
SIMILAR ARTICLES & IDEAS:
5
Key Ideas
There is one truth that applies to everybody and to all fields: passion leads to meaningful results.
Passion is also what makes the difference between employees: while a standard emplo...
In order to be able to be happy, one should do what he or she likes as work. However, not always what we are drawn to can bring us money.
If you are willing to pursue your hobby and make profit out of it, you should first make sure that doing what you like can actually help you live a decent life. Therefore, if you do have a hobby, you might want to consider checking out if there is a real market for it. For almost everything that is well presented there can be a market. So go on and take your chance!
Once you have committed to turning your passion into something profitable, the next step is to carefully research the options: check if there is a real demand for your offer, have a a look at what competition has to offer, etc.
Furthermore, maybe the most important is to find ways to innovate. This way, you will develop your competitive spirit and gain clients while learning to become better in the chosen field.
3
Key Ideas
Ever since 1950, movies dealing with topics such as climate change, asteroid impacts, nuclear holocausts, pandemic etc have greatly increased in number. Especially between 2010 and 2019, these ...
In 'Avengers: Infinity War', Thanos is one of the main characters: a purple giant warlord, who believes that there are too many people in the Universe with not enough resources. Furthermore, he plans and eventually succeeds to make half of the world population disappear by snapping his jeweled fingers.
However, the truth seems to be quite the opposite: the more individuals we are, the more resources we can enjoy.
Individuals tend to generally believe that things cannot go but from bad to worse. However, history has always proven that there is place for and improvement will forever happen, at its own pace.
Humanity might have lost most of its faith in the ability of improving, however, this process is real and occurring over and over again.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you w..."
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”