After a generation of online fallacy-hunters who think that making a decision based on emotion is the appeal to emotion fallacy and that insulting someone is the ad hominem fallacy, it's clear we need to rethink how we teach critical thinking.

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English-language epistemology emphasizes defining knowledge.

Ancient South Asian epistemology emphasized identifying the pramāṇas, or reliable sources of knowledge.

I made a table showing which pramāṇas various philosophical schools recognized.

Asian philosophy without fluff or fog: primary texts and analytic clarity, in plain English. Download a free sample on my website: josephdowd.com 👈

Most #Daodejing translations are based on the Wang Bi version of the text.

This version has come down to us attached to a commentary by the 3rd-century philosopher Wang Bi.

But this so-called Wang Bi version isn't the version Wang Bi commented on!

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