Logic Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/logic/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:21:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Logic Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/logic/ 32 32 The Mental Whiplash Epidemic https://mind-at-work.com/the-mental-whiplash-epidemic/ Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:21:36 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4569 A condition best termed “mental whiplash” is approaching epidemic proportions in the United States. It is called this because of its similarity to the condition that occurs when a driving accident violently shakes the heads of its victims. The numbers of the infected vary among age groups: few if any among grade and middle school [...]

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]]> Goodbye Logic, R.I.P. https://mind-at-work.com/goodbye-logic-r-i-p/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:08:46 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4416 Logic may be defined as a system of thinking that produces reasonable decisions and judgments about problems and issues large and small. In every age and culture it has been valued as the indispensable guide in human affairs. Logic is characterized by unbiased examination of facts, consideration of various points of view and their implications, [...]

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]]> Understanding the Division Over Trump https://mind-at-work.com/understanding-the-division-over-trump/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:49:13 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4345 Why does one half the country deplore Donald Trump while the other half esteems him? As one who began on one side of the division and ended on the other, and published my views on each, my understanding is more nuanced than that of people who have never changed sides. The following quotes from my [...]

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]]> Ideas That Are Destroying America https://mind-at-work.com/ideas-that-are-destroying-america/ Sat, 25 May 2019 17:27:09 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3329 Many writers have lamented America’s moral and intellectual decline but few have identified the cause. I submit that it is the cluster of ideas known as Relativism. First popularized by J. J. Rousseau in the eighteenth century as Romanticism, these ideas were expressed in the mid-twentieth century in the Humanistic Psychology of Carl Rogers and [...]

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]]> “My Truth,” “Your Truth,” THE Truth https://mind-at-work.com/my-truth-your-truth-the-truth/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:45:30 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3124 For millennia, people naturally, almost instinctively, understood that truth is objective rather than subjective. In other words, truth is what is actually so about something as distinguished from what people guess, feel, think, or believe is so. Furthermore, no one, no matter his/her strength of conviction, educational level, or social status can transform a non-truth into [...]

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