Thinkability
We ALL Have the Ability to Think
Thinkability is "the ability to think."
- Are you able to think? YES, you are! You have thinkability.
Each and every living thing that has a brain has the ability to think. Creatures with "higher" intelligence have a more refined ability to think than "lower" creatures.
I suppose there has always been conflicts between people because of their thinking; if they think; how they think; and what they think.
THINK ABOUT IT
What Do You Think?
It doesn't matter to me so much if you think like I think, but I do hope you are actively and purposefully thinking.
- What we BELIEVE should be informed by what we THINK.
- BELIEVING and KNOWING are not synonymous, they are different things.
- Also, what we "KNOW" is sometimes wrong. Our KNOWLEDGE may be false knowledge and a thinking person will acknowledge this reality.
Am IWhy Should You Think?
- You should think because you want to KNOW.
- We are continuously presented with information and are most often told what we are supposed to think about it.
- Buy what if the information is inaccurate? What if it is a lie? What if it is only partly true?
- You need to think primarily to evaluate the veracity of information you are receiving.
How Should You Think?
- We should think critically.
- We should think lucidly.
- We should think academically.
- We should think rationally.
What Should You Think?
- We should think on things that are true.
- We should think on things that are just.
- We should think on things that are pure.
- We should think on things that are beautiful.
- We should think on things that are admirable.
- We should think on things that are moral.
- We should think on things that are commendable.
The ability to think is typically referred to as intelligence.
What is Intelligence?
Intelligence is comprised of three abilities:
- the ability to ACQUIRE knowledge
- the ability to UNDERSTAND the knowledge acquired
- the ability to IMPLEMENT the acquired and understood knowledge
It really is as simple as that.
These abilities are put to work by us when we are actively SEEKING knowledge (collecting information) commonly referred to as RESEARCH, employing REASON (thoughts, asking questions) to understand the knowledge (information or data) that we have acquired, and then using RECKONING to properly act upon it as we should.
These are the tools (research, reason, and reckoning) that we employ in acquiring, understanding and implementing knowledge.
Intelligence uses these three tools:
- RESEARCH: used to acquire knowledge
- REASON: used to understand knowledge
- RECKONING: used to implement knowledge
