Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:21:50 +0100 (MET)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:21:50 +0100 (MET) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: [ifets] Technology and Learning
Dear IFETS Forum..
To the ongoing interesting discussions, I would like to add some kind
words of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the most important intellectual
figure of medieval Judaism, whose works on philosophy, religion and
medicine were enormously influential to generations of Christian and
Islamic as well as Jewish scholars.
A strong theme in the philosophical work of Maimonides is an insistence
that one should never indulge in specious rhetoric, even for a supposedly
good cause. Moses Maimonides wrote:
"If a man claims that he sets out to demonstrate a certain point by
means of sophistical arguments, he does not, in my opinion, strengthen
assent to the point he intends to prove, but rather weakens it and opens the
way for attacks against it. For when it becomes clear that those proofs are
not valid, the soul weakens in its assent to what is being proved. It is
preferable that a point for which there is no demonstration remains a
problem, or that one of the two contradictory propositions simply be accepted."
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Let us discuss!!!
Kind Regards
Arun Tripathi
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