True thinking requires an internal dialogue among conflicting viewpoints.
Evidence
Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world. Viewpoint One is an avatar in a simulated world. It has its own representations of past, present and future, and its own ideas about how to act. So do Viewpoints Two, and Three, and Four. Thinking is the process by which these internal avatars imagine and articulate their worlds to one another. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 727
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 727
- XREF: connects to: Collective intellectual work requires respectful dialogic engagement to manage conflicting perspectives; Participants must be open to welcoming different and even conflicting ideas and perspectives — Dialogic space: An introduction; Dialogic interactions create open, critical, constructive spaces for negotiating differing ideas toward consensus — ‘Dialogic scaffolding’: Enhancing learning and understanding in collaborative contexts (+20 more)
Library Connections
- Creative thought requires an initial silence that clears prior mental assumptions
#complicates(0.50) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 453
Broader Connections
- Objectified conflict follows its own intrinsic logic without subjective moderation
#expands(0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 306 - Collective intellectual work requires respectful dialogic engagement to manage conflicting perspectives
#expands(0.75) - Reflective thought transforms obscurity and conflict into clarity and coherence
#expands(0.70) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1307 - A self-consistent philosophy can be completely false while inconsistent systems hold truth
#corroborates(0.60) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2213 - Reflective thought forms a chain of linked units toward a common end
#expands(0.50) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1254 - Power-laden words constrain how and whether people can think certain thoughts.
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