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>I don't need to study grammar, logic and rhetoric in order to think well. I'm smart enough to think well without it.
Said nobody with a triple-digit IQ ever.
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Accurate pic then & today
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>>533690449
Oh I don't know about that.
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>>533690449
Rationality decoupled from sex and violence is sterile and masturbatory.
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>>533690449
>>I don't need to study grammar, logic and rhetoric in order to think well. I'm smart enough to think well without it.
who says this?
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>>533690449
Chiaki killed nagito in danganronpa. But Chiaki wasn't a person, she was an AI.
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The trivium (a deep, systematic study of grammar, logic, and rhetoric) was the basis of Western education for over a thousand years. It continued in an increasingly diluted form until the middle of the 20th century, when it was replaced by more "progressive" methods of "education" for hoi polloi. It survives today only in very elite private schools. Recently the homeschooling movement has tried to revive it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium

https://youtu.be/J-00ouej34g

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_education_movement

https://classicalconversations.com/blog/what-is-the-trivium

The Great Tradition edited by Richard Gamble

Here's the talk by Dorothy Sayers that sparked interest in the trivium among homeschoolers:

https://www.fadedpage.com/link.php?file=20140328-a5.pdf

Here's John Taylor Gatto's breakdown of what you'll find still being taught only in the very elite private schools:

https://youtu.be/VgNOellI03w

https://youtu.be/obFPLRuP41w

Here's what we've been given instead:

https://cardinalinstitute.com/the-prussian-model-of-education-in-the-us-should-be-reexamined

https://youtu.be/LnWbKQcElGk

Here's where the globalist elite go to school:

https://youtu.be/A0OBhoWBctw

Here's an outstanding textbook on the trivium method:

https://archive.org/details/the-trivium-the-liberal-arts-of-logic-grammar-and-rhetoric-sister-miriam-joseph

Mortimer Adler, the man who inspired Sister Miriam, wrote the book on how to read a book:

https://archive.org/details/howtoreadabook1972edition

Here's a pop book about the trivium for the general public:

Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric by John Michell, et al.

Here's a high-school textbook on traditional Aristotelian logic designed specifically as part of the trivium program:

Logic As A Liberal Art by R. E. Houser

Here's a good essay on the fate of the humanities in our modern "education" system:

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/not-defend-humanities
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>>533690449
I make that face when I cum.
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>>533690449
i just realized this was the face of the masturbator because retards probably jacked off in public
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>>533690631
The grammar studied in the medieval trivium was general grammar, which is basically semiotics with a substrate of metaphysics, as opposed to special grammar, which is what we think of today when we hear or read the word "grammar". The closest we might get to general grammar today would be to study linguistics alongside Aristotelian metaphysics; for instance, something like the following:

The Study of Language by George Yule
https://sharifling.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/the-study-of-language-george-yule.pdf
Analyzing Grammar by Paul Kroeger
https://anekawarnapendidikan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/analyzing-grammar-by-paul-r-kroeger.pdf
Principles of General Grammar by J. Roemer
https://archive.org/details/principlesgener00roemgoog
The Philosophy of Grammar by Otto Jespersen
https://archive.org/details/philosophyofgram0000jesp
A Higher English Grammar by Alexander Bain
https://archive.org/details/higherenglishgra00bainrich
An Introduction to English Grammar by Greenbaum & Nelson
https://archive.org/details/AnIntroductionToEnglishGrammerCopy
The Principles of Grammar by Leonard Peikoff
Collar & Daniell's First-Year Latin
https://archive.org/details/collardaniellsfi00collrich
Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana
https://archive.org/details/lingua-latina-oerberg-familia-romana-lib
First Steps in Anglo-Saxon
https://archive.org/details/firststepsinang00sweegoog
A History of the English Language by Baugh & Cable
The Mother Tongue by Lancelot Hogben
Indo-European Philology: Historical and Comparative by W. B. Lockwood
https://archive.org/details/hermesorphilosop00harr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_grammar
https://iep.utm.edu/aristotle-metaphysics/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/
https://iep.utm.edu/aristotle-logic/#H2
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-categories/
https://circeinstitute.org/blog/blog-metaphysics-grammar/
Substance and Essence in Aristotle by Charlotte Witt
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>>533690449
>training for years to argue with people on the internet
i just call you a nigger and you start hyperventilating, so whats the point?
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>>533690816
I wouldn't neglect special grammar and composition, though. Since public schools no longer teach people how to write, it might be worthwhile recommending some books and videos on composition and style:

Writing and Thinking by Foerster & Steadman
https://archive.org/details/writingthinkingh0000norm
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams
Rhetorical Grammar by Martha Kolln
Pen and Ink by Guy N. Pocock
https://archive.org/details/bwb_KU-190-994
Style: The Art of Writing by F. L. Lucas
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.474163
Style: An Anti-Textbook by Richard A. Lanham
The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
https://youtu.be/ulhrXgpjveA
https://archive.org/details/englishcompositi01bain
https://archive.org/details/acollegemanualr00baldgoog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
https://youtu.be/-BiwmpPDCpk
https://youtu.be/hhVic18H4u4
https://youtu.be/YYH6vfNiqxw
https://youtu.be/RQL-2LHweKY
https://youtu.be/A74sdHiIgnI
https://youtu.be/6OK2yMbV-jU
https://youtu.be/j5lAigr4_m0
https://youtu.be/N4o5Y7ZRckw
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209854

The last book listed above (the original unabridged edition by Graves & Hodge) contains a superb short history of English prose style.

I also recommend studying poetry in depth, as this forces you to pay extremely close attention to words, their associations and effects, a habit that will later feed into rhetoric. Prosody manuals by actual poets should be your texts, plus a good anthology of great poems throughout the centuries (I like Immortal Poems of the English Language edited by Oscar Williams).

Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and
Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver

The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody by Alfred Corn

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell
https://archive.org/details/em-38057-poetic-meter-and-poetic-form

The Poet and the Poem by Judson Jerome

https://youtu.be/MkvhZ6veqNA
https://youtu.be/-18xZIr97KI
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For logic, start with some general and non-technical books like Lionel Ruby's Logic: An Introduction (which is the best general introduction to logic I've seen) and Stephen Naylor Thomas's Practical Reasoning in Natural Language (which drills students until they can analyze natural-language arguments in their sleep).

After that, it's time for traditional Aristotelian logic, which is what the trivium is based on. The best introduction to this is Peter Kreeft's Socratic Logic. It's a textbook designed for high-school students. If you want to get really deep into it, there's H. W. B. Joseph's Introduction to Logic and of course Aristotle's Organon.

https://archive.org/details/peter-kreeft-socratic-logic

https://archive.org/details/introductiontolo00jose

https://archive.org/details/organoncooke01arisuoft

https://archive.org/details/organoncooke02arisuoft

After that, you can delve into modern formal deductive logic with Patrick Suppes's First Course in Mathematical Logic and Nicholas J. J. Smith's Logic: The Laws of Truth. There's also this free online textbook:

https://forallx.openlogicproject.org/

After that, you can look into informal logic. The author to read on this subject is Douglas Walton. He's written many books on it.

This is the best book I've seen on what teachers nowadays like to call critical thinking:

Creative and Critical Thinking by W. Edgar Moore
https://vdoc.pub/download/creative-and-critical-thinking-3g9jb3fp8epg

It's basically a primer on inductive reasoning.

Here are two excellent 19th-century textbooks on deductive and inductive logic:

https://archive.org/details/logicdeductivein00bain_0
https://archive.org/details/logicdeductivean00readuoft

In addition to the above, you should also study abductive reasoning and heuristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_(psychology)
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>>533690983
>After that, you can look into informal logic. The author to read on this subject is Douglas Walton. He's written many books on it.

What I like about Walton is that he doesn't claim that informal fallacies are always fallacies. He takes care to note the circumstances under which certain "fallacies" (such as ad hominem or the slippery slope) might actually be legitimate methods of critique. He's the only author I've read who does this.

>you should also study abductive reasoning and heuristics

Walton has also written a book on abductive reasoning, which I haven't read yet. C. S. Peirce, the greatest philosopher the U.S. has ever produced, coined the philosophical term "abduction" (although its current definition has changed slightly) and made it a key component in his system. For heuristics, the authors to read are Georg Polya (who coined the term) and Gerd Gigerenzer.

Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer

Heuristics: The Foundations of Adaptive Behavior edited by Gerd Gigerenzer

Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning (in two volumes) by Georg Polya

The last book is a classic but requires some mathematical knowledge to fully appreciate. Polya wrote a more popular book called How To Solve It.

https://miro.com/strategic-planning/what-is-ooda-loop/
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>>533691058
To transition from logic to rhetoric, study the Socratic elenchus and dialectic:

https://therightquestions.co/tag/elenchus-method/

https://archive.org/details/dialectic0000adle

Aristotle's Dialectic: Topics, Sophistical Refutations, and Related Texts translated by C. D. C. Reeve

Dialectics: A Classical Approach to Inquiry by Nicholas Rescher

Both elenchus and dialectic are methods of inquiry that use a question-and-answer format to test for inconsistency, but each has a different use and M.O. Elenchus is used solely for refutation. It begins by you asking your opponent for a definition of the subject under discussion and then peppering him with a series of yes-or-no questions carefully framed so as to make him assent and lead him step by step into contradicting himself, thereby (purportedly) refuting his original claim and demonstrating that he doesn't know what he's talking about. It does not attempt to make positive contributions, especially when combined with Socrates' scathing irony. In the early dialogues of Plato, Socrates simply demolishes his interlocutor, makes a few sarcastic remarks, and departs. That is elenchus. In the later dialogues, however, Socrates is less scathing and more constructive, using dialectic to help his friends develop their ideas into something that can withstand rigorous scrutiny. Dialectic is a kinder, gentler Q&A, two-way instead of one-way, with open-ended questions that allow for subtlety and nuance in reply. For our purposes, elenchus, if it is used at all, is used on (not-so-bright) enemies to refute their arguments and make them look foolish in public, while dialectic is used in private with (intelligent) allies to help us clarify our positions and refine our arguments.

Dialectic, by the way, is the only antidote to this new man-made horror:

https://youtu.be/_xHY4rfNRUA

If necessary, you can try to simulate dialectic by yourself:

https://youtu.be/m47HazDm4Ek
https://youtu.be/Fl5S5s8oSxM
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Yet this is the essence of learned language models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Lqd5JVl00
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>>533691138
Finally, there's rhetoric. The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction (1st edition) by James A. Herrick is a decent historical survey of the subject.

Here are some excellent old textbooks:

https://archive.org/details/principlesofrhet00hill
https://archive.org/details/ancientrhetoricp00baldrich
https://archive.org/details/medievalrhetoric0000char_n9f2
https://archive.org/details/principlesofargu031882mbp

An excellent modern rhetoric textbook based on classical principles:

https://archive.org/details/classical-rhetoric-for-the-modern-student/

A pdf for a beginner's version of Aristotle's Rhetoric:

https://share.google/XbI3jCRVivWJUDVmf

A series of short videos giving you a guided tour of Aristotle's Rhetoric:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFbFmLLP3FsLY0xVEg8pMkvX8qwFHGtwC

A translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric:

https://archive.org/details/artofrhetoric00arisuoft

The classic Roman text on rhetoric is the Rhetorica ad Herennium formerly attributed to Cicero but probably not by him:

https://archive.org/details/adcherenniumdera00capluoft

For a really deep dive, there's Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory (four volumes in the Loeb Classical Library), which gives long, precise descriptions of how upper-class Roman youths were trained to become effective speakers and writers.

https://youtu.be/rl9WxD10WLs

To bring your rhetorical education up to date, you might want to study books on propaganda and marketing. Edward Bernays, the father of public relations and modern advertising, wrote two short books on these subjects: Propaganda and Crystalizing Public Opinion. Robert Cialdini has written a recent book on these topics titled simply Influence. Finally, for a very deep and scholarly investigation there's Jacques Ellul's Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes.

A key concept in modern rhetorical theory is identification, which underpins almost all propaganda, psyops, and advertising:

https://youtu.be/zdbaV2MVhBM
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>>533690528
Grammar, logic and rhetoric are upstream of science. Science is inherently empirical; grammar, logic and rhetoric are not.
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>>533691225
From a YouTube comment:

>During Shakespeare’s era, the Classical Education of the Greeks and Romans had a renaissance. Writing was based on the trivium and had two stages. In Stage One the student would choose an exemplary model and analyze it by parsing it grammatically for correctness, then logically for arguments/topics of invention, and then rhetorically to identify its tropes and figures, as well as other dimensions such as the arrangement of the entire discourse, or matters of rhythm and style. Stage Two involved the practice of Imitation. These imitative exercises consisted either of copying the form of the original but supplying new content; or, of copying the content of the original but supplying a new form. There were many different techniques employed (the most common being the varying of sentences) and they included a practice called Metaphrasis - the ‘translating’ from one genre to another - a speech to a poem, etc. Students kept commonplace books to record their favorites. Models of exemplary writing were often taken from famous Greek and Roman authors, such as Plutarch. I genuinely believe that, thanks to Desiderius Erasmus, Shakespeare would have had this classical training in writing. He would have most likely been reading Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch as a model of excellence, and been practising his progymnasmata exercises, collecting them in his commonplace book. The final Form taken within this education is Genesis - the creation of your own work, which would have included examples of exercises a student had worked on during his education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysian_imitatio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
https://youtu.be/2HCmv6aDYbQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progymnasmata
https://www.classicalwriting.com/Progym.htm
https://youtu.be/0f0N-DbtotI
https://youtu.be/1pzXg-eqGW0

Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric translated by George A. Kennedy
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>>533691337
Your education doesn't end with the study of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The trivium should lead to the study of mathematics, philosophy, history, and literature.

Start where all the greats did until comparatively recently. For over two millennia, every educated person learned abstract deductive reasoning by studying Euclid.

https://youtu.be/IaXRFmtgMUU

>I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid, and I find myself much the happier.

- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams 21 January 1812

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0041.104/--lincoln-euclid-and-the-satisfaction-of-success?rgn=main;view=fulltext?

https://youtu.be/A-MxQJRXGy0

Far from being obsolete, Euclidean diagrammatic reasoning is more natural than, and for some purposes might even be superior to, the algebraic forms of logic taught in universities today:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050920303409

The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126332

https://youtu.be/BfQzIi9HZA4

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFC65BA76F7142E9D

The Four Pillars of Geometry by John Stillwell

https://youtu.be/UhX1ouUjDHE

Here's a book on how non-STEM people can benefit from studying mathematics:

How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
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>>533691449
A superb history of applied mathematics:

https://archive.org/details/klinemathematicsandthephysicalworld

Some very popular and rigorous 19th-century textbooks that are still being used in some countries:

https://archive.org/details/academicarithmet00wellrich
https://archive.org/details/elementaryalgebr00hall
https://archive.org/details/advancedcoursein0000webs
https://archive.org/details/elementarytrigon00hall
https://archive.org/details/elementsofcoordi00lone

An excellent modern calculus textbook suitable for self-study:

Modern Calculus and Analytic Geometry by R. A. Silverman

If you want to go to beyond calculus, you'll be getting into analysis and pure math, which is all about logically proving the taken-for-granted mathematical procedures themselves. This will require you to be creative in a very rigorous way.

https://archive.org/details/introductiontoma00russuoft

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBRHzyVsSQOCoRTPgtYDQ_3U4KHNqeSa

Mathematical Proofs by Chartrand, Polimeni, & Zhang

https://archive.org/details/book-of-proof-third-edition-2018-richard-hammack

https://youtu.be/V5tUc-J124s

https://youtu.be/nGEUOLCYbng

Real Analysis by Jay Cummings

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04BA7A9EB907EDAF

Elementary Classical Analysis by Marsden & Hoffman

https://archive.org/details/WhatIsMathematics

https://youtu.be/-fq6jhILiPw

https://youtu.be/TdeKw0jbTdc

What you DON'T want from the study of higher mathematics is mere rote learning for memorizing formulas that you mindlessly apply to contrived problems on exams. Some memorization and lots of practice will be necessary for developing your skills and intuition, but the ultimate goal is to understand, fully and deeply, what you are doing and why you are doing it. Mathematics, like logic, should teach you how to reason deductively and think systematically about things. It is, ultimately, a creative art/science.

https://youtu.be/PiG8NM2aXI8

https://youtu.be/upFxaYnrs-A
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>>533691495
One glaring omission from almost all public high-school curricula is probability and statistics. Every high school has calculus classes, but I've never seen a high school that teaches P&S. How odd. P&S would be far more useful than calculus for most people, and it's easier to teach. It is an indispensable tool of critical thinking--which is undoubtedly why it isn't taught in public schools.


Here are some good introductory books that don't require a lot of math:

How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
https://archive.org/details/how-to-lie-with-statistics-darrell-huff

An Elementary Introduction to the Theory of Probability by Gnedenko & Khinchin
https://archive.org/details/gnedenko-khinchin-an-elementary-introduction-to-the-theory-of-probability

Basic Statistics (revised & enlarged edition) by George Simpson & Fritz Kafka
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148535

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You by Gerd Gigerenzer

Intuitive Biostatistics by Harvey Motulsky


Here's an excellent introduction to combinatorics, a branch of mathematics that informs P&S as well as CS:

Mathematics of Choice by Ivan Niven
https://archive.org/details/math-of-choice

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs/ch04.pdf

Some basic knowledge of finite and discrete mathematics will inform combinatorics, which in turn will inform P&S:

Finite Mathematics by Karl J. Smith

Introduction to Discrete Mathematics by Robert J. McEliece


Here are some more advanced P&S books and courses that require a bit more math:

Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics by Hodges & Lehmann

An Introduction to the Theory of Probability and Its Applications (in two volumes) by William Feller
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.5666

https://archive.org/details/introduction-to-probability-second-edition-joseph-k.-blitzstein-jessica-hwang-z-library

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo
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>>533690449
you losers never win any arguments on here anyway you still resort to ad hominems all the time and pretend you won that way

you low iq fagget commie jew nigger beaner mulatto sandnigger jeets all do this
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>>533690449

Knowledge =/= Intelligence

Only intelligent people seem to know this.
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Begin your study of philosophy with Plato and Aristotle.

https://archive.org/details/plato-the-last-days-of-socrates-the-apology-crito-phaedo-plato

https://archive.org/details/gregory-vlastos-the-philosophy-of-socrates-a-collection-of-critical-essays

https://archive.org/details/the-republic-joe-sachs

https://archive.org/details/platos-republic-a-critical-guide

https://archive.org/details/theaetetusofplat00platrich

https://archive.org/details/plato-r.-e.-allen-the-dialogues-of-platos-parmenides

Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus translated by J. H. Nichols Jr.

https://archive.org/details/aristotle-desire-to-understand-lear

https://archive.org/details/cambridge-companions-to-philosophy-jonathan-barnes-the-cambridge-companion-to-aristotle-cambridge/

https://archive.org/details/AristotlesNicomacheanEthics

https://archive.org/details/AristotlePoliticsSachs.num

Two very different translations (and interpretations) of Aristotle's metaphysics:

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.185284

https://archive.org/details/aristotles-metaphysics-sachs_202306

A History of Ancient Philosophy (4 vols) by Giovanni Reale is a brilliant, highly original survey of ancient Greek philosophy:

https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02real/

Guide to Philosophy by C. E. M. Joad is the best introduction to metaphysics and epistemology I've read:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.507125

https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-CAT-703

The Great Conversation by Melchert & Morrow

Bacon to Kant: An Introduction to Modern Philosophy by Garrett Thomson

The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by E. A. Burtt

Thinking It Through by K. A. Appiah

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/kant/#book-705
https://richardschutte.medium.com/the-triadic-of-reason-b17f3b2b9606
https://youtu.be/-oQL0sB3lqY
https://youtu.be/6RZr3dtvqAE
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8B-g03RivIMt7llh1cyEGV
https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/all-episodes
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>>533691629
I could easily fill 30 posts just listing history books, but I'll limit myself to these 26 books (some of which are multi-volume) plus two essays. I concentrate mainly on ancient and modern history, choosing books as much for their literary quality as for their scholarship and insight. That's enough reading to keep you busy for a few years.

What Is History? by E. H. Carr

The Rise of the West by William McNeill

https://archive.org/details/historiesofherod00hero

https://archive.org/details/the-peloponnesian-war-oxford-university-press.-thucydides-martin-hammond-p.-j.-rhodes-2009_202504

Hellenica and The Anabasis by Xenophon

The Histories by Polybius

History of Rome by Livy

Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jugurthine War by Sallust

https://archive.org/details/twelvecaesars01suet

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189883

The Gallic War by Julius Caesar

Plutarch's Lives

History of the Wars and The Secret History by Procopius of Caesarea

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun

New Science by Giambattista Vico

The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay

France and England in North America by Francis Parkman

Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

On Power by Bertrand de Jouvenel

The Origins of the Second World War by A. J. P. Taylor

https://www.unz.com/runz/the-true-history-of-world-war-ii/

Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley

The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

https://archive.org/details/the-fate-of-empires-and-search-for-survival-john-bagot-glubb

The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
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>>533691684
Eventually you will want to collect your own library of physical books to read and study from, not just as a hedge against a complete internet crash or a full-scale, centralized memoryholing of unauthorized digital texts, but also because you learn better by reading and studying from physical books:

https://youtu.be/SEu0tx1_Zwk

https://youtu.be/uiNB-6SuqVA

https://youtu.be/1ykKCTcCbKY

You can order cheap, used hardcopies of most of the books listed above from the following dealers:

https://www.thriftbooks.com/
https://www.betterworldbooks.com/
https://www.hpb.com/
https://www.ebay.com/
https://www abebooks.com

Writing notes by hand is proven to increase retention:

https://youtu.be/zKi1KYhi0xg

https://youtu.be/ATmJb3bH2E0
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>>533690449
>edmuhcation is the dimydurn same ting as intuligence! - many triple digit iq people
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are you a hairy palm gooner?
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>>533691734
Some books & videos on learning & studying:

Uncommon Sense Teaching by Barbara Oakley

How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene
https://archive.org/details/stanislas-dehaene-how-we-learn-the-new-science-of-education-and-the-brain-penguin-2020

Outsmart Yourself by Peter Vishton
https://archive.org/details/OutsmartYourselfBrain-basedStrategiesToABetterYou

A Mind For Numbers by Barbara Oakley
https://archive.org/details/a-mind-for-numbers-how-to-excel-at-math-and-science-barbara-oakley

An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field by Jacques Hadamard
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59603

How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
https://archive.org/details/how-to-take-smart-notes-sonke-ahrens-nigel-fyfe

The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas
https://archive.org/details/june_20200501

Précis Writing for American Schools by Samuel Thurber
https://archive.org/details/prciswritingfora00thur


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6#B4-societies
https://dictionary.apa.org/chunking
https://youtu.be/hydCdGLAh00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desirable_difficulty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection_(psychology)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5780548
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/exams-and-revision/best-ways-to-revise/the-blurting-method
https://youtu.be/9qKDJDvczFU
https://youtu.be/bNv8asxZc6U
https://youtu.be/m-8_PyCJ36Q
https://youtu.be/HrVg76JAxNA
https://youtu.be/3xFBkua-mno
https://youtu.be/BG1tfC7tSYw
https://youtu.be/o49C8jQIsvs
https://youtu.be/BpvEY-2dSdU
https://youtu.be/w2uICmMcKxI
https://www.zakvarty.com/blog/2022-10-07-rhetorical-precis/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEe8GXNH09zkgH83tjuPzmB_HZe7Hdv39
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/

What your mindset should be:

Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
https://archive.org/details/homo_ludens_johan_huizinga_routledge_1949_
https://youtu.be/JxNGCrMuiTc
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Most of my recommendations in this thread are for adult autodidacts who want to discover what they were cheated out of by our modern school system; and since most of this material will probably be too advanced for young children, I'll use this comment to post a few links for those anons who are interested in homeschooling. Parents might want to look into the various homeschooling methods & curricula to see which ones suit them best, perhaps mixing and matching them to create an eclectic hybrid (e.g., the Charlotte Mason method with a rigorous classical curriculum).

https://youtu.be/LKAkKvZIHz4

https://youtu.be/26sw04WNW0E

https://youtu.be/tc1v6K_5x-8

https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/susan-wise-bauer/pdf-epub-the-well-trained-mind-a-guide-to-classical-education-at-home-download

https://www.memoriapress.com

https://www.classicalwriting.com

https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyCharlotteMason

https://www.amblesideonline.org/cm/index

https://triviumpursuit.com/the-trivium-and-charlotte-mason

https://www.invictusclassicalpress.com/blog/can-you-do-classical-and-charlotte-mason-togethernbsp

Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition by Karen Glass

https://youtu.be/-Y5SRS-OPbA

https://youtu.be/stZi7zjI194

https://youtu.be/H8nKNqmpjrk

https://youtu.be/p5qa_3T870A

https://youtu.be/sb4drjc_IGc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_math

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paideia_Proposal

The most popular schoolbooks in 19th century America:

https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED623277

https://archive.org/details/mcguffeysrhetori00mcgu

https://archive.org/details/raysnewpractical0000jose

Reading about the upbringing and education of a famous autodidact might provide some useful homeschooling ideas as well:

https://archive.org/details/autobiobenfran00miffrich

https://youtu.be/0aOrIZrY8XA

A cautionary tale:

https://archive.org/details/a592818300milluoft

A STEM genius describes his childhood:

https://youtu.be/iSVy1b-RyVM
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>>533691684

You need an authentic sense of Identity for any of this knowledge to be applicable. If you could point at one thing the West has sought to eradicate in it's pursuit of dominion it's been competing Identities. This because Identity determines Reality. Plato and Aristotle aren't dumb but they aren't compatible. They're a fundamental reason the West can't find equilibrium.
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>>533690549
me, i get all my ideas from mastabaitin
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>>533691880
When it comes to children's education, knowing what NOT to do is just as important as knowing what to do. It's very telling that Big Tech oligarchs and high-level spooks in unguarded moments admit that they don't own TV sets and keep their children far away from social media. They use these technologies on us, to dumb us down and manipulate us, but they themselves avoid this stuff like the poison it is.

https://youtu.be/Dr8G6tt4520

https://m.independent.ie/life/family/parenting/the-tech-moguls-who-invented-social-media-have-banned-their-children-from-it/37494367.html

Here's how their mind-crippling tech works:

https://archive.org/details/little-light-pseudology-the-art-of-lying

https://www.eruptingmind.com/effects-of-tv-on-brain/

https://catholicinsight.com/2025/04/04/the-shallows-what-the-internet-is-doing-to-our-brains/

https://youtu.be/TpiuZdilY78

Most video games fall into this category of mind poison, too. A few of them, such as Tetris, might be all right.
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>>533690449
>confusing education with intelligence
>classic mid-wit tell
Grammar and rhetoric are lingustics tools, they aid communication with others, they're socialization tools, they're not tools of intelligence.
In-fact, some of the brightest minds hardly communicate with others. Dirac famously rarely said anything to anyone and would take hours to respond.
Logic is intuitive, it doesn't need to be studied unless you're a midwit who doesn't grasp how it works.
Only a midwit from a midwit government brainwashed educational background would argue these things 'need' to be studied.
An actual intellectual will tell you intellectuals intuitively learn simply because they're intellectuals. They don't have to formally study anything. You think Socrates was given a pile of University books to study before he learned how to debate?
I predict you'll 'midwit seethe' rather than address the points, which just proves you didn't study either, contrary to your stated claims.
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>>533690449
The people I see with a life I want,
>Money.
>Girls.
>Free time.
You get my point, they all are dumb as fuck, those that are smart all have shit lives.
They think things through and oftern don't bother getting into shit they can't afford or has risk or repercussions.
The, Muh, low iq, just go for it and get away with way more than they are ever caught for.
And they high iq guy you know that has it all, trust fund faggots that have shit given to them. They'd be good no matter what level of intelligence they have.
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>>533690449
A lot of logic and philosophy is arbitrary at best and blatantly wrong at worst. The only real philosophical stand point is nilhism.

Logic is just pattern recognition. The patterns that are being recognized dont really matter.

People hate this idea and love pointing to IQ tests.
If you can study for an intelligence test. Then it isn't actually testing your intelligence. Its just testing how familiar you are with certain patterns.

You should avoid learning for the sake of being learned. And instead learn about things grounded in reality that actually matter.
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>I haven't studied one page of grammar, logic and rhetoric in my life, and here's my opinion about it: you don't need it.
Thanks for proving my point, coombrains.
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Completely Parsed Classics

I recommend using google lens to explain the footnotes.

https://archive.org/details/CommentariesOnTheGallicWarCaesarCompletelyParsedBookI

https://archive.org/details/completely-parsed-cicero-oration-1

https://archive.org/details/fully-parsed-horace-odes-translation-pub-co

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822003632080

https://archive.org/details/progressivegerma00adle

https://archive.org/details/easyfrenchreadin00fish
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>Thirty five years ago when I was at school in China, I learned Euclidean geometry (both plane and solid) from my excellent math teachers. I enjoyed spending hours solving and proving hard problems. I had great pleasure from working on these problems - although a child, I felt capable of deducing something new based on a few simple definitions, axioms and theorems. More importantly, it enriched my life by making me appreciate the elegance of math and physical sciences.

>Fast forward to the time when my child started grade 8 in Canada, to my great disappointment, the geometry education in North America has deteriorated to merely some formulas for simple calculations and sporadic geometrical facts without justifications. At the same time, the math textbooks are stuffed with some strange "innovations": mindless tessellation, confusing figure rotation, invalid "proof" by measurement, etc.

>After shaking my head too many times, I decided to take matters into my own hands and to introduce my child to the beauty of Euclidean geometry. After browsing a few geometry books, I fell in love with this book. It has contents and styles almost identical to what I learned before. I even found many problems I solved decades ago. (In his preface, Prof. Givental mentioned that Kiselev had a great influence on geometry education in Eastern Bloc and China.)

taken from a review at:
https://www.amazon.com/Kiselevs-Geometry-Book-I-Planimetry/dp/0977985202

https://annas-archive.gl/md5/c523f037fce8a40b3a7bec1a4ec23671
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>>533695011
Nice. Thanks for these.
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>>533690449
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You're the faggot that defends the French language, though
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>>533690449
>redditor mistakes xirself for an intelligent person because xe asks for sources
You know what the fastest way to a world without any innovation, advancement, or new understanding is? Dismissing anything that doesn't have reference to some past work that garnered enough good goy points to be published by literally Ghislaine Maxwell's dad. Literally. Look that shit up.
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>>533690532
Yeah yeah we've all read The Prince.
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>>533690816
>semiotics
Starts off really good then you want to neck yourself as you go deeper. Still, incredibly good stuff.
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>>533690449
The majority of all humans ever, for hundreds of thousands of years, were illiterate and smarter than you
A 40,000BCE cave man wasnt a vaccinated idiot who wore a covid mask for 2 years like you and he didnt pay his taxes to pedophiles like you either
and he was illiterate
You can read and write but you got a jew cum vaccine for a virus that didnt even exist because you are a genuine fucking moron and domesticated livestock
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>>533695974
I hate how the Internet just made everyone dunning-kruger so hard, the retards will never come down from their illusion of knowledge
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https://archive.org/details/anabasisofxenoph00xenoiala
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044102864030

https://annas-archive.gl/md5/4402dfb824853ccf06d456a09cc8f009

https://archive.org/details/childsillustrate00keet

https://annas-archive.gl/md5/98ae65df102363389e715697b2832775

https://archive.org/details/tudeprogressived00ster

https://archive.org/details/longmansillustra00bidg
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>>533692222
the quads teh quads
/thread
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>>533690449
Unironically yes. However, noone will take you seriously unless they are either just like you, or you know how to use grammar, logic, and fancy words to convince them.
If you're a high functioning genius who doesn't do well with words, I'd really suggest either getting comfortable being the smartest man in the room no one listens to, or go make friends with trees and shit.
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>>533690449
>Said nobody with a triple-digit IQ ever.
You have research supporting your claim there is not one single uneudcated person with high IQ in the world or are you double-digit IQ retard working on belief and posting offtopics on unrelated boards?
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The art of logical thinking; or, The laws of reasoning
by Atkinson, William Walker

https://archive.org/details/artoflogicalthin00atki

Elementary lessons in logic : deductive and inductive
byJevons, William Stanley

https://archive.org/details/elementarylesson01jevo
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https://archive.org/details/logicorrightuseo00watt

https://archive.org/details/logick_2507_librivox
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>>533690449

>I always place the most mongrelized and most retarded takes on my fake opposition
>I then claim superiority


It’s so obvious anons
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>>533690449
I have 154 and i don’t think with words.
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>>533690449
Why would studying any of that be even remotely helpful when literally everyone else is a brainlet?
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>>533690631
Dont want/need educated people, we(also you) use the German model of training people well enough to be kept in poverty indefinitely while being entirely too dumb to do anything about it.

Nothing happens by accident anon
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>>533690449
>Grammar, logic and rhetoric
Doesn’t exist in Chinese but they still raped your subhuman “civilization” with ease
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>>533692222
>Grammar and rhetoric are lingustics tools, they aid communication with others, they're socialization tools, they're not tools of intelligence.
>In-fact, some of the brightest minds hardly communicate with others.
No, they are also tools of thought.

>Logic is intuitive, it doesn't need to be studied unless you're a midwit who doesn't grasp how it works.
Wrong, and thanks for proving my point.
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>>533698148
>answering a clearly retarded memeflag
you need to learn time management also anon
just the work you do here by trying to get these people to learn how to boost their own thinking instead of keep learning facts is already big work because, at the end of the day, this website is 40% bots, 40% trolls, 10% humans and 10% cops.
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>>533697563
It is wild how well the system has produced people just smart enough to accomplish tasks while remaining too dumb to really question anything. They are also imbued with a nice bit of arrogance and groupthink tendencies from a young age.
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>>533690449
I dont think in grammar and punctuation. Thats only important for conveying the message
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>>533690449
And logic only works if you think about the variables! If someone asked you to solve car accidents and gave you nothing else to go on the most logical conclusion would be to get rid of cars. Thats not very "intelligent" but it is logical
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>>533696823
I said "think well". I said only double-digit-IQ people think intelligence is enough to think well. It's not. You also need to study grammar, logic and rhetoric. Being born Arnold Schwarzenegger is not enough to benchpress 100kg, you also need to eat food.



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