/lit/ - Literature

>>15620714
>How do I form my own opinions?

>>15620714
Yes.

>>15620714
>How do I form my own opinions?
By reflecting on what you learned. Thats it, thread closed

Do like most people and agree with that what makes you feel good.

A combination of going with your gut, confidence, and reflecting on the opinions you arrive at by doing this.

Which viewpoint lines up the most with your own experiences? Where does it diverge?

>>15620714
Dunno, I use those kind of books like "lenses". I use them whenever they seem appropriate. Read a book called The Case of the Speluncean Explorers by Lon Fuller and you'll see what I'm talking about.

>>15620714
This is natural. Kids also don't have a lot of opinions. Opinions form as a result of seeing contradictions around you. The natural instinct in your mind is to resolve the contradictions: both A and not A can't be true. As a result, opinions form.
So in order to form opinions you have to observe and read a lot. That way you'll encounter a lot of contradictions.

>>15620714
Use intuition
If something comes across as stupid but you can:t explain why think some more

>>15620714
don't. intuit the optimal strategy for your position in the hierarchy and use cobble together a rationalization for it using fashionable pieces of the elites' memeplex. building a worldview from the ground up with solid premises is horribly inefficient and has unironically ruined my life.

Connective logic has to be the foundation of your beliefs. Start thinking sequentially, if x is true then y follows, y is true, therefore z etc. Eventually you come to build a rudimentary understanding of reality. Then you read books. One author posits that A is true, do I believe him? How does that fit into my prior beliefs about B? Basically you have to come to knowledge yourself and then let the books correct you where your reasoning fails, and you have to be honest about when you do fail

>>15620714
you that the lack of knowledge of what is right and wrong AND the lack of knowledge of how to know what is right and wrong show that right and wrong are social constructs from the mental gymnastics by intellectuals, especially he humanist intellectuals like the liberals and libertarians, scientists..

>>15620802
This. If you care about being correct (or at least more accurate/probable) then you must assess your belief relative to a legitimate standard (logic being the most fundamental, inescapable standard).

Otherwise, you just go with feelings/faith

Holy shit OP

You don't. You write a third point of view on the topic either saying they're both wrong or right, and make some money from pseuds that frequent this board.

>>15620714
You weigh the relative evidence.
However, people use mental heuristics because building a rationale from the ground is onerous and counter-productive.
You're rarely going to change anyone's mind on the balance of evidence (or through any other means), so only go through the effort if it will actively improve your life in some way.