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For Vygotsky, the relationship between instruction and development was at the core of the dialectical movement between spontaneous and scientific concepts: in the process of instruction, spontaneous concepts are the cognitive framework, the seeding ground, for the emergence of nonspontaneous (scientific) concepts. Instruction, then, is the impetus for the development of this new type of concept.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
With the sophisticated mental apparatus we have used to build world eminence as a species, we have created an environment so complex, fast-paced, and information-laden that we must increasingly deal with it in the fashion of the animals we long ago transcended.
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini PhD
The attempt to hide one’s indifference is also what makes bullshit, according to Frankfurt, a species of deception. While this means bullshit has some overlap with the concept of lying, he argues that lying and bullshitting have distinct targets of deception and stem from radically different attitudes toward the demands of truth. __Frankfurt takes liars to be intent on deceiving others ‘about the facts or about what he [the liar] takes the facts to be’. Bullshitters, on the other hand, misrepresent an aspect of themselves: they present themselves as concerned with the truth and committed to communicating the truth to another, while their real project is to take advantage of an undetected indifference to the truth-value of their claims.__ Bullshitters hide their indifference to veracity in an attempt to manipulate others.
The Wrong of Bullshit
Thorian R. Harris
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