{"id":935,"date":"2007-12-08T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/12\/08\/reply-from-ibrahim\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T12:37:00","slug":"reply-from-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2007\/12\/08\/reply-from-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply from Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">[this is a response to the preceding post below &#8211; the final sentence is for the benefit of dd, I believe. S.L.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think it must be clear from my previous posts that I have no objection to teaching children to think critically. It must also be clear that I think that analytical philosophy has its limits. The point at which it becomes possible to think about those limits is after long preparation and practice. In the meantime, the practice of Islam as a spiritual process enables one to understand how those limits may be recognised for what they are \u2013 a curiosity that results from some kind of \u2018knots in our thinking\u2019 to use Wittgenstein\u2019s expression. Many other western thinkers have detected the same kind of problem, as have the mystics of various traditions. This is where interesting possibilities begin to open up as far as I am concerned. Trading insults, even when thinly disguised as intellectual arguments, may be entertaining, but I don\u2019t need to come to this blog for that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[this is a response to the preceding post below &#8211; the final sentence is for the benefit of dd, I believe. S.L.] I think it must be clear from my previous posts that I have no objection to teaching children to think critically. It must also be clear that I think that analytical philosophy has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-schools","category-ibrahim-lawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}