Rodent Regatta

THE ESSENCE OF CRITICAL THINKING

I haven’t been reading Eric Raymond’s weblog. Today, I begin. With ten bullet points for his objections to liberals and ten bullets for his objections to conservatives, Eric has done the difficult work of thinking through what he believes – critically.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where too few people are prepared to do the difficult, logical and critical thinking that allows them to build their belief system. Charles Munger has referred to this as a ”latticework of mental models from a wide variety of disciplines.” Encountering any news item or current event, those with such a latticework have a basis for critical thinking and consistency with past decisions.
(I only wish sites such as this had RSS feeds for our news aggregators!)