Let me start by making this bold assertion: if you aren’t exquisitely sensitive to the phenomenon described below, then you have zero chance at being intellectually wise in life. Zero. Most of the examples of the phenomenon I give here are simple and straightforward. But they are merely the obvious...
Many people think he is a guru, full of wisdom on how to live one’s life. Others think he is a villain, actively causing harm in the world with his false and pernicious opinions. They are both wrong, as is Peterson himself occasionally. Thinking through the Peterson phenomenon is useful...
A knockdown argument is one that is indisputable, or virtually so. It has premises and a conclusion. There is no reasonable way to object to the premises’ truth; they are obviously true. And there is no way to argue with the logic of the argument: it’s obvious that if the...