– How people learn to think logically? Is there any limits to possible logical thinking, depending on age?
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Just wanted to add to what others have said. People are also predictably irrational. Even the absolute brightest and logical people in the world will be irrational given an outside factor. This has been studied so well that you can actually use these stats to predict what people will do in certain situations. Logic is a tool but when presented with certain factors, we forget how to use that tool.
I’ll give you a simple but dumb example. I like to think I’m a pretty logical person. I am an engineer and by nature need to think logically for my job. I know how elevators work, I know the statistics of elevators, I know how safe they are, I know how many redundancies they have. I am terrified of elevators and if I’m in one and it stops, I will become very irrational. Take that situation, by all facts presented, logically I shouldn’t be scared. I can actively recognize this but it doesn’t change my irrational feeling about elevators. One factor for this is that I’m claustrophobic, so in that situation my claustrophobia trumps my logical thinking.
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