The main thing about improving your thinking is ''precision in language''. It helps immediately to be aware of the fact that we think in symbols, and the symbols are language: words and images and numbers, all of which are symbols for those things that they represent, outside of our brain. And thinking is manipulating and arranging these symbols in our brain, to come to a conclusion, without the need for manipulating and arranging the real things that the symbols represent, in the world outside our brain, in order to be able to come to conclusions about these things.
But this will make more sense later, after we have done a lot more analysis of these concepts.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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