Thursday, December 05, 2024
OPINION - ESSAY - THINKING
Still, that's sort of implied by the word "thinking". It's an ongoing process. Also, as we encounter "problems", things to think about, some may be new. We may not have been aware of the problem/question before, or maybe only in a peripheral way. Now, it meanders to the forefront of our mind, and, like a new acquaintance, or even a friend we haven't seen for a while, we have to learn, or re-learn, information about it.
Learning is also an ongoing, open-ended, experience.
So, our thinking about the "thing", an ongoing process, involves "learning", also an ongoing process, which means that the "conclusion" or "solution", may become a bit of a moving target.
When we read, listen to, or encounter, a great thinker, that someone or something that makes us think, we tend to expect their great thoughts to enlighten us... solve the problem, provide the conclusion which we can then use to show ourselves to be "thinkers" as well.
Nope.
Tain't necessarily so.
Usually, they just show us how much we don't know yet, and start us thinking and learning.
That's a "maybe", not a conclusion or solution.
Just thinking out loud.
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# posted by Donovan Baldwin @ 6:50 AM 
