Conflating correlation w/ causation?
Do humanities actuallly make us (significantly) wiser?
Or just smarter people more willing/trained to play along?
Do humanities actuallly make us (significantly) wiser?
Or just smarter people more willing/trained to play along?
If goal is really to make us wiser, why are humanities *so* obtuse?
(Does being hard to write, read, and comprehend really help create wisdom and knowledge?)
(Does being hard to write, read, and comprehend really help create wisdom and knowledge?)
And why is so much of humanities this strange game of finding (merely) *plausible* interpretations. (That no one else has noticed before!) And support with (only) confirmatory evidence?
(That’s the game, no? Strange, no? How can *that* optimize learning and knowledge?)
(That’s the game, no? Strange, no? How can *that* optimize learning and knowledge?)
Does that game *really* make us (that much) wiser?
Or just have to be smart to play?
(And how did such a strange game develop? Why these odd rules/norms? Any clues? The humanities are *so* strange. Or am I missing something obvious?)
Or just have to be smart to play?
(And how did such a strange game develop? Why these odd rules/norms? Any clues? The humanities are *so* strange. Or am I missing something obvious?)
