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Logical Gal stumbles, and then remembers!
29 AprI felt intimidated!
A comment to one of these Logical Gal blog posts tripped me up. I couldn’t make heads or tails out of what my reader wrote in his ‘logical’ pushback. First of all, it was:
Thus, I felt stupid. At first.
Then I reread his words, and realized that it was also incomprehensible!
With that insight, my logical training kicked in and I felt empowered.
When someone responds to you and you don’t understand what they mean, the ONLY logical course of action is to ask them TWO clarifying questions:
When I replied to his lengthy comment with those questions, he DID try to clarify. And it was the same genre, to wit: scientific-sounding, smart-sounding BUT still incomprehensible. So I took it home to my resident scientific expert, my husband. And HE couldn’t make any sense out of what the guy was writing. I felt a bit better.
In all honesty, I did dialogue back and forth with this gentleman because I appreciated that he had READ my blog and also that he had taken the time to write a comment and share his thinking. In the end he and I both stopped because neither one of us was making headway toward mutual understanding.
But I learned a lot! When you don’t know WHAT to say, just ask some questions. This is wise AND easy and the pay off is three-fold:
Tags: Assertions, Claims, Clarity, Comments, Questions, Rational Thinking, Reasons