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I have not studied Greek philosophy and can't really be bothered to start now. But I want to know how to think properly. I don't lack the ability to introspect at all but my thinking is not focused and linear enough to solve personal problems. How do you get better at this, how did the Greeks do it? Are there any other philosophers who are beneficial for this? I'm asking /lit/ because ChatGPT can go fuck itself.

>> No.22088784

>>22088764
Study mathematics

>> No.22088937

>>22088784
no, you want to develop your thinking by engaging with those philosphers who develop their onotlogies on the bases of mathematics
Plato, Spinoza, Hegel, Badiou

>> No.22088939

>>22088784
Where do i start as a high school dropout who hasn't studied in 15 years?

>> No.22088960

>>22088937
And of course, the father of enlightenment Descartes.

>> No.22088962

>>22088939
First, try to solve this equation

X+1=2

>> No.22088993

>>22088939
khan academy, that's what I did

>> No.22089020

>>22088937
Hegel literally spends like 5 pages in the preface of POS ranting about why the mathematical method is shit and doesn't work for philosophy

>> No.22089029

>>22088939
don't listen to these morons, learning mathematics won't teach how to think especially if you have to start with basic algebra and calculus because you will just be learning how to do shit by rote, especially if you use Kh*n academy. you won't learn anything about how to think until you get to more advanced mathematics which has a huge learning curve and is extremely difficult to teach yourself. at best you can get "how to prove it" by vellman and work through that.

but you should just start reading Plato. his works are designed to teach you how to reason.

>> No.22089613

>>22088764
https://www.rationality.org/resources/handbook

>> No.22089635

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phoney God's blessing but because I am enlightened by my own intelligence.

>> No.22089835

>>22088764
You asked for a solution to a problem yet you, yourself, not only offer the right solution but choose to reject it.
You cannot attain logic by yourself, it's a learning process. At most, read Aristotle's Logic or perhaps an introduction to logic. You can find the later here:

https://www.routledge.com/Introduction-to-Logic/Copi-Cohen-McMahon/p/book/9781292024820

https://www.routledge.com/Philosophical-Logic-A-Contemporary-Introduction/MacFarlane/p/book/9781138737655