
Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reasonhthttp://www.dan.sperber.fr/
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The Importance of Debate in Politics
Is there some sort of political impact of your theory? Well, let me give you two examples where it does have impact. There's a lot of wonderful work showing that children learn much better if they are given the chance to argue about the subject matter at hand. If you put it in a problematic form, an encouragement to develop different point of view than to argue among themselves, not only do they indeed tend to come to a proper solution. Of course, there's a conversion between the liberty of democracy and this view of reasoning.
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