How can I learn more about logic and it's relation to psychology, persuasion, and communication? I want to become a more rigorous scientific thinker and to improve my ability to communicate scientific concepts in a clear and convincing manner.
The reason this comes up is that I've been talking to this friend/acquaintance a lot lately, and he is really misinformed on a lot of issues concerning science and technology. I want to educate him a bit on these issues, but no matter what I do or say, he wont be convinced. I tried calling him a poltard, I tried calling him a schizo. I told him that he's a scientifically illiterate right-wing moron. I told him to take his meds. I insulted him for coming from a blue collar background. None of it is working, and I don't understand why.
What other strategies can I employ to effectively communicate scientific ideas in a logical and convincing manner?
None of Albert Einstein's great grandchildren had any children, so they will be the last to carry his DNA. Someone should go extract their semen so that the lineage continues and has a chance at bringing the world another Einstein.
Science is satanic and math is just an illusion it's not real. There is no evidence math exists and scientists worship balaal. Science is not useful and it causes more harm than good.
>The spatial imagination is a characteristic of the Germanic races while pure logical reasoning has a richer development among Romanic and Hebraic races. >In the intellectual sphere the race shows in the manner of creation, the evaluation of the results, and I guess also in the standpoint considering foundational questions. >Formalism wants to build a realm of mathematical truths which is independent of man, whereas Intuitionism is based on the idea that mathematical thinking is a human endeavor and thus cannot be separated from man."
What the fuck is the covariant derivative supposed to represent?
I understand that directional derivatives don't cut it as a good enough operation on tensors because there is no basis for all the tangent spaces and that the covariant derivative is supposed to solve this problem by "connecting" different tangent spaces.
This seems pretty vauge tho, and the way my book presents it is just as a linear map (bilinear technically) that maps tangent vectors to tangent vectors.
