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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is there anything outside of our own minds? (solipsism) |
| Lisac57 |
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Posted: 25 May 2010, 2:39 pm
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Replies: 29
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| Let's say I have a two room apartment, and you happen to know everything about the one room and nothing about the other. Then, I submit, you cannot deduce anything about the other room, from known facts about the first one. Getting to the point, I will never discover anything about you only on the b... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's appropriate. |
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Posted: 24 May 2010, 1:26 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,978
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What is appropriate depends on what you want to achieve. Ignoring other people's thinking is taking a considerable risk that they come to think wrong things about you and this could have repercussions. I try to walk the thin line between manipulation and indifference, and it is not easy...
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Critical thinking? Are you good at it? |
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Posted: 22 May 2010, 10:38 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 4,264
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| What with "wrong ideas"? Most of what I find on the net I don't understand, much less believe. Although to my lights beliefs are not fundamental. What matters, to my lights, is the kind of expectations beliefs bring about. A belief that generates expectations that do not come out, is not very useful... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Critical thinking? Are you good at it? |
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Posted: 21 May 2010, 5:31 pm
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Replies: 31
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| An idea may strike you as being logical or otherwise, and as far as you are appealing to your own logical intuition, good luck. If you want to go beyond your own intuition, you would have to move through a stage of formalisation, and if, a big if, your formalisation is compelling, and the idea, form... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Critical thinking? Are you good at it? |
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Posted: 17 May 2010, 3:09 pm
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Replies: 31
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| Critical thinking is a wet dream of rationalisation, imagining there to be some neutral vantage point from which various sources can be neutrally evaluated for credibility, trustworthiness and so on. A setup of critical thinking takes off from a set of more or less naive presuppositions and then goe... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is perfectionism really all that bad? |
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Posted: 17 May 2010, 1:03 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,736
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| Our word perfection derives from the Latin per = through, and facere = do/make. So by etymology, perfection is something that you have worked through in every relevant detail, I might add. As such, perfectionism is a virtue, notably in the enterprise of programming. By sliding meaning, perfection ha... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Swedish Readers take up the fight against Aspie defamation |
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Posted: 16 May 2010, 4:49 pm
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Replies: 3
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| Yes, a horrible thing went down here the other day. Something that shouldn't happen did, a really bad thing, and people want to know why. Bless them. But what is not OK, is reaching out for some diagnosis, which is a working hypothesis for helping someone, trying to launch those troubles to explain ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Asperger's is isolating |
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Posted: 16 May 2010, 4:40 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,211
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| Aspergian features complicate the acquisition of social skills, for example by making one see socializing as some trivial and ultimately meaningless game. I see it like that, unless I make an effort, which I sometimes can, sometimes can't. Exchanging tidbits of information chattywise or otherwise wi... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Mathematical concepts |
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Posted: 14 May 2010, 2:27 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 4,907
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| Mathematical concepts are fun unless you get them rammed down your throat. Understanding a concept, let's say continuity or cardinality, is a very tall order. I have spent decades trying to understand what kind of aggregate can be usefully imagined as a set, and fantasizing about how many types of p... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Bipolar |
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Posted: 14 May 2010, 2:16 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,807
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| Hi, I was a very long time, or so it seemed before I could do anything much. Things sort of settled down when I realised that if I go back to full time employment, I'll undersleep and then the whole tedious manic circus starts anew. I tried about half a dozen meds before I found something I could fu... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your learning style? |
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Posted: 13 May 2010, 5:12 pm
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Replies: 76
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| Gorblimey, do we have a Swede in our midst? If so there are two of us (Din sol Din himmel Dina ängder grööööna). I do not relate well to the factorial analysis, I've done several tests and the results were quite varied. The big thing my way is when things make sense, when I can see what I experience... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Bipolar |
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Posted: 13 May 2010, 4:58 pm
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Replies: 11
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| Hi, I'm in much the same fix, spectral and bipolar, and what I understood, late in the day, is the temptation to commit the base rate fallacy. Thing is, if all I could tell an employer are those two things, arguably he wouldn't give me the time of day. But it dawned on me, that in addition to those ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Rote learning? |
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Posted: 12 May 2010, 10:39 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,833
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| For most people I've met, college was a rite of passage; usually with the understanding that you'd forget everything after a few years, frequently with vague allusions to how quickly scientific knowledge changes. If you want to master a subject and truly understand it, you don't fit in easily into a... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: How do you begin to learn a language? |
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Posted: 11 May 2010, 1:21 pm
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Replies: 8
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| It's well to remember that before we start speaking our native language, we've heard an awful lot of it around us, picking up the hints along the way. My suggestion is that you look for subjects/topics that hold an interest for you att the site: http://www.canalacademie.com Download a couple of talk... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do ýou find competitions distasteful? |
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Posted: 06 May 2010, 2:17 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,639
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I loathe competitions, particularly those I win. So I managed to make a great impression,
so effing what? At the end of the day I'm still alone.
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Wish I had friends! |
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Posted: 06 May 2010, 2:13 pm
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Replies: 6
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you are not the only one.
when people find my skills useful, they are ever so friendly,
when they don't, I don't exist in their book. some friends!
J |
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