– How people learn to think logically? Is there any limits to possible logical thinking, depending on age?
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One of the main logic barricades people built up from early childhood and carried through to adulthood is prescriptive parenting or authoritarian teaching styles where the answer to “Why does X do what X does?” is “Because I said so”, it’s an attempt to teach you the “facts” as they want to perceive them (or how they themselves were taught) by rote while teaching you nothing, it’s more akin to a drill instruction of a belief.
Reasoning comes from checking your assumptions (all of them) and questioning everything, possibly with a good teacher who’ll guide you with a light touch or just by being curious enough to drill down through a subject and find out the “Why” and “How” for yourself.
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