Comments on: IS IT TRUE?: How to sort truths from lies.

By: Ramon Rivas

Ramon Rivas — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:39:05 +0000

I believe that this is the best way to find out when someone is lying to you about something or trying to take advantage of you by lying. I really love this way of thinking it always works for me specially with my co-worker i let them forget for a few weeks then i asked the question again most of the time the answer they give me is not even close t what they told me before. to me keeping the six question in mind is the best way to grow.

By: George

George — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:37:59 +0000

The six questions lead to a better view of the situation.

By: Xenek Stoehr

Xenek Stoehr — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:32:17 +0000

RE: Any claim that has ever been made in all of history and any claim that ever will be made can be illuminated, examined, investigated and accepted or rejected using the 6 true questions of greyscale thinking.
What and Where and When and Why and How and Who.

This article contains brilliant observations, that help keep me focused now. I undertook some School of Thinking lessons a long time ago – this led me to questioning many things. A result is that I think I can ask more questions than I could previously, discerning more details.

So I ask myself a question: Is it right to accept or reject a claim, when you know that further questioning could result in you reversing your decision?

By: Rumer

Rumer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:44:57 +0000

I had read a book written by a private investigator. The topic was on how to tell if someone is lying. The book stated, keeping asking them questions at different times, and just rephrase the questions. It has always worked for me, even the best liars slip up and can be caught off guard.
The questions remind me of the “Question Authority” bumper stickers. I agree, if we just accept what we are told, we are just sheep and are not thinking for ourselves. If we question everything, we are using our minds and thinking and it may be the truth or not, at least we have the power of mind to determine it so.
I have a friend who thinks he “knows certain things are right.” I explained to him that since what I think today is “right” may change tomorrow, then I can never be 100% sure about anything. He got really mad at me. I ended up explaining to him this idea of mine more and eventually he was okay and accepted this.
After talking with him and using this website, I realized he did not know psychology, philosophy or physics and that our thinking was just very different.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:19:03 +0000

The saying ” The truth shall make you free” comes to mind. But the problem is , what is the truth? Hundreds of years ago, the current “truth” was that the earth was flat . Now that has become an “untruth”. We now know that the earth is not flat.
A “truth” is a collection of facts, and an interpretation of those facts.Because the facts can change or the interpretation can change, the “truth”becomes relative and changeable.
Because as humans, we have limited sense perceptions we shall never discover the absolute truth. Our reality is essentially a human reality. A beetle has a thousand times better sense of smell than humans. a dog also possesses much greater hearing than humans. Our vision is limited as well. Also our thinking and reasoning abilities are limited by our ability to interpret the world.

By: maria

maria — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:50:41 +0000

We were taught to use this style of thinking…’critical thinking’ in the late seventies while I was at secondary school…I never see this style of thinking portrayed anywhere, except maybe when studied at university doing my honors in nursing where w taught to critique…it seems to me people really don’t have the ability to dissect information from this who, what, why, how, stance. I have passed it on to my very clever twin daughters.
Great to see this style of thinking, critiquing here…and so lovely to hear about the righteousness distinguished from ‘being right’ and the useless drama righteousness creates and the stagnating effect on thinking.

By: William

William — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:42:29 +0000

A wonderful explanation about the logic of think

By: scott

scott — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:20:50 +0000

Brilliant. I teach this poem to my class of 7 years olds.

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.

I let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views;
I know a person small-
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!

She sends’em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes-
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!

The Elephant’s Child