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Tao Stoic 239

"It is about time, somebody did some experimenting with children and adults."

"Master, you shock me. You have always been an enemy of the experimenting and testing business, the Psammetricians, the pseudological bungling!!!"

"Indeed, in order to know Reality, there is no harm in experimenting. It is part and parcel of science. Besides, the line between 'experimenting' and 'go and observe' is very hazy at least. I have grave objections against stupid tests, and harmful tests in Mind-Science, i.e. the pseudological bungling. My dictum is: 'When you do not know what (harm) you are doing in experimenting WITH HUMANS, when not versed in Mind-Science, stay away from at least children and the unhappy'. Yet, we, are careful and well versed in Mind."

"What experiments do you propose then?"

"Well, the earliest systematic logic that man learns, is the standardisation of sounds for ideas, the language. Now, most western languages are wholy ILLOGICAL per se, English, German, Spanish etc. Yet, there is one (or perhaps there are more) of exceptional beautiful-, logical-, consistency, aesthetics even, and that is Turkish. Therefore, Turkish children learn an almost strict logic as babies, whereas all the others learn an absurd-, inconsistent un-logic. We should try out how this influences; no, not standard thought, but creative thought, Lateral Think."

"You are right, Master. It, then, is needless to say that we should not adopt the fallacies of pseudological testing, i.e. the measuring of TIME. These pseudologists always measure the Time taken for a task, the number of tasks in a Time interval, or the number of mistakes under pressure of Time. Let's not hear anything of that in our case Master."

"In this, you are totally correct of course."


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Ven 2005-01-24