Evolving Levels of Thought

Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There�s the rock-hard certainty of personal experience (�I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,�), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there�s the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras�s theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.

Notes:

As we grow older, based on experience.

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Dawkins, Fairy Tales, and Evidence'

Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Pullman , Philip , Dawkins, Fairy Tales, and Evidence', Retrieved on 2012-06-21

Source Material [www.philip-pullman.com]