The Horse That Won T Go Away Analysis

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Looking back over the introduction and chapter one of The Horse That Won’t Go Away I see the same platitudes that often come around the didactical purpose of a liberal arts education. That is that the main focus is not about acquiring knowledge but teaching us how to think. Our most obvious realities are often less talked about due to the mind bug of naïve realism, were if something is perceived by ourselves it hold truth for all. One would be quick to say, I already know how think. We as humans often want to find the correlations’ that will only support what we already know, but this fallacy would lead us to fall into the very same pit Han’s dug with is tapping foot. Critical thinking puts skepticism into your blind certainty that we wrap

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