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Comment author: Zubon 03 April 2015 02:43:56PM 1 point [-]

In particular, I manage to dissolve a lot of philosophical paradoxes or arguments much quicker than I used to be able to.

Any particular approach you would like to cite there? I've found Peirce's pragmatic maxim to be a good shorthand for a lot of that. "This is just word games with bad definitions."

Comment author: casebash 12 April 2015 11:00:06PM 0 points [-]

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_map_is_not_the_territory is very important.

It's also very helpful training to look at various paradoxes such as the Liar Paradox, The Unexpected Hanging Paradox, the Raven Paradox and so on.