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Neither the blogger here nor the sources cites write very clearly or well, and this limits what they are able to say. But despite the linguistic difficulties the post does point toward something important: humans reason via patterns, where patterns are perceived similarities in the phenomena; this reasoning can be learned through learning to perceive more finely graded distinctions; and this form of reasoning is - or ought to be - considered a core discipline, cutting across traditional educational fields to find regularities across them. There is a distracting, wrong and misleading diatribe about conspiracy theories woven through the post with can be (in my opinion) ignored as having nothing to do with the subject.

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