Does the ability to think increase with learning or with experience?

Question

My personal experience says 'no'. The outcome is the THOUGHT PREDICTOR ( http://wwf.edula.com/tp ).

What is your judgement on my conclusion?

Answer 1

learning lessons from experience increase the ability to think.

Answer 2

The ability to think increase with experience. The more you experience, the more you will learn how to think better. It's just like the more experienced you are, the better you'll be in running your life. If thinking doesn't improve with experience, then you can say that our level of thinking is the same as when we were first born. But that sounds absurd to me.

That Thought Predictor is absurd. It doesn't come from the wise, only from the fool that thinks he/she is wise. A fool who prefer to complicate things to show he/she is wise. If I choose, I can also waste my time and do the same...

Who is walking since you're not the leg?
Who is walking since without you, the leg can't walk?
The answer? Foolish...

Answer 3

It depends on what you are thinking about and what are you experiencing... are you thinking about simplistic things with yes and no answers or is the question and idea you are dealing with filled with a need to evaluate, weigh, determine, conclude, compare, bring together information in a synthesis, etc. Or are you experiencing the day to day, or something truly new that challenges and forces the person and the mind to consider and weigh new options and ideas?

Only with challenging thoughts or experiences will learning or experience allow a person to think more clearly. It's all based on the weight of the experience or learning ... but the average person has much too little of both

Answer 4

My Judgment is as your answer; it is negative. The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) Part One

I. Introduction

'§ 8

In its own field this empirical knowledge may at first give satisfaction; but in two ways it is seen to come short. In the first place there is another circle of objects which it does not embrace. These are Freedom, Spirit, and God. They belong to a different sphere, not because it can be said that they have nothing to do with experience; for though they are certainly not experiences of the senses, it is quite an identical proposition to say that whatever is in consciousness is experienced. The real ground for assigning them to another field of cognition is that in their scope and content these objects evidently show themselves as infinite.

There is an old phrase often wrongly attributed to Aristotle, and supposed to express the general tenor of his philosophy. Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu: there is nothing in thought which has not been in sense and experience. If speculative philosophy refused to admit this maxim, it can only have done so from a misunderstanding. It will, however, on the converse side no less assert: Nihil est in sensu quod! non fuerit in intellectu. And this may be taken in two senses. In the general sense it means that nous or spirit (the more profound idea of nous in modern thought) is the cause of the world. In its special meaning (see § 2) it asserts that the sentiment of right, morals, and religion is a sentiment (and in that way an experience) of such scope and such character that it can spring from and rest upon thought alone. '

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slintro.htm#SL8

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/li_terms.htm

Answer 5

Neither. The ability to think increases with actually thinking! Most people learn and experience a lot, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "The hardest thing for a person to do is to think".

Answer 6

In that the ability to think is the expression of wisdom, it does come, to a certain degree, with age. Only the insane would keep repeating the same and expect a different outcome.

Answer 7

Learning and experience are the same thing to me. Pure book learning cannot make you creative, but on the other hand, you can't use a tool you don't have.

Our ability to learn from our experiences is what teaches us to think.

Sounds like a bad test question to me.

Answer 8

no the ability to think does not increase, but the knowledge on which you can base your thinking may have increased, so the scope of your thoughts may be wider.
your conclusion is valid enough, but i see no relevance of the "thought predictor".

Answer 9

Our capacity to think is always within us and is not dependant on either what we have learned or our experience. Do you think an infant who has just been born has no capacity to think? I challenge this. They think, they simply haven't learned the vocabularly to vocalize their thoughts. They use the only thing at their disposal which is their body language. Now knowledge, that's a different story.

Answer 10

i think that yes, it does increase, with both learning and experience,,,,,,, like any part of your body, the more you use it the more it will tend to develop and grow,,,, though there may be some limitations most dont fully work out enough to truely find out what their limitations are,,,,, this is true of the mind as well as the body