World Philosophy Day - Western and Eastern Mindsets

Join 10 other Meetup groups around the world on this day, World Philosophy Day, Nov. 19, 2020 (according to UNESCO), for an inquiry into how people the world over think.

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To all who RSVP, I will post the link to the online meeting about roughly, maybe 10 minutes before the event.

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Do you have a Western mindset or an Eastern one? In characterizing mindsets this way, I don't mean to tie them to geographical locations or to specific groups of people based on race or anything inborn; rather, I mean certain, distinctive styles for thinking. Equivalent names for them might be "Occidental" and "Oriental." By whatever pair of names, I argue that the way people the world over think can generally be sorted mutually exclusively and jointly exhaustively into some schema, and the Eastern and Western mindsets fall into this scheme.

Outline:

1. The self-evidence about any thinking
2. Defining thinking and mindset
3. The behind-the-scenes process of thinking
   3.a. language
   3.b. logic
   3.c. arithmetic
4. Distinguishing mindsets
5. Evaluating mindsets
   5.a. Which is ascendant and trending nowadays?
   5.b. Which is better?

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A depiction of an impossible object by means of an illusion, from ~Liar's Paradox~, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRp07xtQUQQ
UNESCO logo for the day, found in condensed version on this website https://tedsf.org/world-philosophy-day-relevant-in-ai-driven-age/
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