The wrong question

Estling discusses the right questions to ask, which embody two factors--truth and importance, and not their relativist, postmodern counterfeits but their absolute, external, intrinsic qualities. When people remember that man is not the measure of all things but only the discoverer of a few, that rea...

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Published in:The Skeptical inquirer 2006-03, Vol.30 (2), p.59
Main Author: Estling, Ralph
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Critical thinking
Feynman, Richard P
Methods
Philosophy
Philosophy of science
Postmodernism
Reasoning
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872-1970)
Science
Scientific method
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Summary:Estling discusses the right questions to ask, which embody two factors--truth and importance, and not their relativist, postmodern counterfeits but their absolute, external, intrinsic qualities. When people remember that man is not the measure of all things but only the discoverer of a few, that reality is not a figment of their consciousness or a creation of their knowledge of the measurements of things but exists outside and beyond them and their task is to find as much about reality as they possibly can in what time they have. Therefore they must not waste their precious, diminishing time with the wrong questions, then and only then they may start to get somewhere.
ISSN:0194-6730