Steven Pinker Quotes About Arguing

Quotes about: Arguing

• I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

  Steven Pinker

  Giving, Purpose, Realization

• Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

  Steven Pinker

  Faith, Believe, People

  "Brilliant Father Teaches His Children to Argue With Him Using Ancient Greek Rhetoric". rebrn.com. May 29, 2009.

• Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

  Steven Pinker

  Perspective, Suffering, Inability

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