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minus-squareZozano@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoEpistemology should be taught in primary school. I mean that unironically. Learning about simple principles like non-contradiction and logical fallacies can help inoculate against so much bullshit. With AI distorting the internet in every capacity, virtually everyone needs a new norm for evaluating whether their knowledge can be justified.
minus-squareundergroundoverground@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months ago non-contradiction and logical fallacies can help inoculate against so much bullshit. That’s exactly why its not taught.
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoEpistemology, Logic, and Science Literacy fite me
minus-squareLeate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoIt should be part of a 12 year rhetoric program. I didn’t learn anything in English class after the 3rd grade. Granted, I was considered gifted, but you have a lot of slack to put in philosophical foundations and logic.
minus-squaregeoff@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoI have taught my children epistemology for this reason. It is THE key skill in the disinformation age.
Epistemology should be taught in primary school.
I mean that unironically. Learning about simple principles like non-contradiction and logical fallacies can help inoculate against so much bullshit.
With AI distorting the internet in every capacity, virtually everyone needs a new norm for evaluating whether their knowledge can be justified.
That’s exactly why its not taught.
Epistemology, Logic, and Science Literacy fite me
It should be part of a 12 year rhetoric program. I didn’t learn anything in English class after the 3rd grade. Granted, I was considered gifted, but you have a lot of slack to put in philosophical foundations and logic.
I have taught my children epistemology for this reason. It is THE key skill in the disinformation age.