Society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect—that is, on reasoning and other cognitive skills.
Whether the society paid enough emphasis on the intellect, including the capabilities of reasoning and other cognitions, as the speaker assert? I fundamentally agree with the speaker's assertion.
To begin with, the emphasis paid on reasoning is too limited. Although we have learned and trained such capability from the day we came into a high school, actually, the occasions we use it in our daily life are very very rare. Take people's attitude to the so-called authorities in certain field for example. People usually regard the words and opinions of the authorities as something absolutely correct and will never fail. Few people will question the authors. Even when they have learned the capability of reasoning, which can make people to analyze and question, people who use the reasoning capability in their lives are very rare. Not only in the attitude towards the authority, but also in the attitude to the various so-called facts and the superficial phenomena of the world, people show little emphasis on reasoning. Take the large amount of appealing advertises in all kinds of media nowadays for example, few people can completely keep a cool brain and use the reasoning capability to analyze them. Most of the commons, unfortunately, can realize the truth masked under the appealing surface. For these reason, I assert that reasoning capability in fact call little attention to our society, although we actually has this capability.
While the reasoning has learned by most people, I find our society place even lower emphasis on the capability of cognitions. In my article, I define it in the field of emotion, such as the capability of cognizing beauty, the consciousness and judgement to the good and evil. In fact, most of us, including the professional educators place little attention to the cognition. From the time we grow up, our parents and educators emphasize much on the learning of knowledge such as math, languages, kinds of sciences, or specified technologies, which can help us finding a good job in the future. However, rarely we are told to learn the capabilities of cognition to the goods and evils. This also is a reason that why nowadays, many highly refined people, including the political leaders, the sports players, the singers, cannot escape from evils minds--some of them reduce to the lawbreakers, the murders, or the druggers. In fact, only with the proper judgement and consciousness can we become the true independent people. Unfortunately, the society in fact has paid little emphasis on them.
To conclude, I fundamentally agree with the speaker in that the emphasis placed on the capability of reasoning and the cognition by our society is so limited and far away from enough.作者: Ganymede 时间: 2004-8-19 12:58:02
Whether the society paid enough emphasis on the intellect, including the capabilities of reasoning and other cognitions, as the speaker assert? I fundamentally agree with the speaker's assertion.
To begin with, the emphasis paid on reasoning is too limited. Although we have learned and trained such capability from the day we came into a high school, actually, the occasions we use it in our daily life are very very rare. Take people's attitude to the so-called authorities in certain field for example. People usually regard the words and opinions of the authorities as something absolutely correct and will never fail. Few people will question the authors. Even when they have learned the capability of reasoning, which can make people to analyze and question, people who use the reasoning capability in their lives are very rare. Not only in the attitude towards the authority, but also in the attitude to the various so-called facts and the superficial phenomena of the world, people show 要倒装吧？have people shown little emphasis on reasoning. Take the large amount of appealing advertises in all kinds of media nowadays for example, few people can completely keep a cool brain and use the reasoning capability to analyze them. Most of the commons, unfortunately, can cannot realize the truth masked under the appealing surface. For these reason, I assert that reasoning capability in fact call little attention to our society, although we actually has this capability.
这段讲对reasoning的重视不够与影响。
While the reasoning has learned by most people, I find our society place even lower emphasis on the capability of cognitions. In my article, I define it in the field of emotion, such as the capability of cognizing beauty, the consciousness and judgement judgment to the good and evil. 下定义是可以，不过有些问题，judgment good and evil是个良知上的理性判断，不属于field of emotion。 In fact, most of us, including the professional educators place little attention to the cognition. From the time we grow up, our parents and educators emphasize much on the learning of knowledge such as math, languages, kinds of sciences, or specified technologies, which can help us finding a good job in the future. However, rarely we are told to learn the capabilities of cognition to the goods and evils. This also is a reason that why nowadays, many highly refined people, including the political leaders, the sports players, the singers, cannot escape from evils minds--some of them reduce to the lawbreakers, the murders, or the druggers. In fact, only with the proper judgement judgment and consciousness can we become the true independent people. Unfortunately, the society in fact has paid little emphasis on them.
这段讲对cognition的重视不够与影响。
To conclude, I fundamentally agree with the speaker in that the emphasis placed on the capability of reasoning and the cognition by our society is so limited and far away from enough.
其实这道题我对cognitive理解的不是很好，所以查了查MW：
of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity （as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) *cognitive impairment*
也就是说intellect分为conscious和非conscious的。所以这道题有个terminology的概念可以讨论，不过我和你都没有就这方面入手，或许我想到了，只是没有把intellect理解清楚。
When confronted with the question whether the society does place enough emphasis on reasoning and other cognitive skills or not, I consider two aspects of it .One is the emphasis put on the intellect, the other is the relationship between intellect and reasoning skills. Actually, the human society do put enough emphasis on the general intellect, the failed part of our world is the weak concern on the reasoning.
Intellect, as it in common sense, is a complicated competence. It include many specific capabilities of human, such as the capability of receiving knowledge, the capability of searching information, the capability of memorizing and the capability of reasoning. The emphasis putting on the intellect varies with each part of the world. In the eastern country, like china, the society put much more concerns on the memorizing skills from thousands years before to this age. The Chinese society believes that a man who can remember many things must be an intellect man and he can succeed in many part of the society. So, this is the reason to explain why the nowadays education of china emphasis much on memorizing the text and the exams in china requires the skill of memorizing much more than other cognitive skills. As a contrast, in the western world, like United States, the society put more emphasis on the capability of searching information. They do not ask a person to memorize the knowledge, but they require him to find the statistics quickly when he needs it. After discussions above, we can conclude that the society do put enough emphasis on the intellect, while the important part varies from country to country.
However, the skill of reasoning is failed to be noted in nowadays society, neither in the eastern country nor in the western ones. As I use china to explain this condition again, its demos seem to be used to accept things. They used to follow the knowledge they memorized and do it without reasoning until a new theory has been brought forward. Then they memorize it and follow it. "Reasoning? Leave it to the experts." A Chinese may answers. When we look into the society of United States, the situation of reasoning is still not better. The Americans rely on the statistics too much. They trust the statistics without suspect it. The over dependence on the data can be attributed to the happening of Enron Gate. In our world, reasoning is thought to be a necessary competence for a detective but not for a common person.
Failed to concern on the reasoning, we are now losing our ability of doing right judgment, and we are more likely to mislead by a seemingly right claims. As a result of lacking reasoning capability, the assertion of the Iraq War, which is now being considered as a wrong decision, has passed in the congress of United State without impediment.
To sum up, we human do put enough emphasis on the general intellect, but the part we look into is varied. The skill of reasoning, actually said, is lost of concern for many years. And maybe, this is our time to reconsider about picking it up.作者: Jonsoncao 时间: 2004-8-19 16:09:58
谢谢大家！那个judgment 原来我有一贯上的错误认识:)
另外to cleonlx:
emphasis ->emphasize
问：the happening of Enron Gate是什么丑闻哪？另外我觉得Iraq war牵涉到政治动机，不一定就是没有reasoning啊，你的B3是不是这个意思，也许我理解错了。其实我觉得你在B2可以说明没有reasoning会怎么样，因为题目讨论的是否enough？而不是有没有重视？试体会一下，如果reasoning没有用，即使不重视也没有错，也不存在enough了。所以我觉得B3加上去可以显得更好一些，不一定对，你再斟酌一下
总的来说不错的，特别对intellect的分析很有力，是查了字典的吧？羡慕ing,偶对好多词的理解可能还有问题呢，没有时间了。另外请教一下，其实我对intellect的介定不是很了解，你说包括有意识和无意识的？有意识的无非就是reasoning,memorizing等等了，但无意是的是什么呢
在我的B2中所说的judgment to goods and evils是有意识还是无意识的呢？你说的那是理性判断不属于emotion我好象不太懂。对cognition,我只查了一下浪文，cognition是consciousness and judgment to things...大概之类的吧，我记不得了，现在怎么觉得我定义的道德观念（是非感）好象不是intellect呢？讨论一下~
到底那些属于理性上的作者: cleonlx 时间: 2004-8-19 22:40:47
Enron Gate就是安然吧。
intellect我是自己编的……没查字典，也不知道对否，不过应该是包含这些的吧。
无意识的…………我也说不上来，只是针对MW对cognitive的定义，看出应该还有一个词代表cognitive的相对面，也就是无意识的intellect，自己推断，被动的接受能力，潜意识的记忆，应该是算无意识的？
能够judgment good and evil是因为你有价值观（不管正确与否）， 价值观是基于理性思维建立起来的，不属于情感的范畴。
To begin with, the emphasis paid on reasoning is too limited.是说现在的情况吗？ assert that reasoning capability in fact call little attention to our society, although we actually has this capability.
call little attention to our society与社会重视问题是一回事吗？还有下一段开头While the reasoning has learned by most people。不太懂。似乎不扣题啊？？
This also is a reason that why nowadays, many highly refined people, including the political leaders, the sports players, the singers, cannot escape from evils minds--some of them reduce to the lawbreakers, the murders, or the druggers.你这句话的陈述使得这句话不太扣题。应该说：这些社会问题反映出我们对XXX重视不够。而不是说重视不够导致XXXX。语序不同表示意思不同。
每句话都要为论证服务。
to cleonlx
capability of receiving knowledge, the capability of searching information, the capability of memorizing
这些应该都算cognitive skill认知能力。（搜索信息也是认知范畴内）
the skill of reasoning is failed to be noted in nowadays society
从结果说明社会不重视？
Failed to concern on the reasoning, we are now losing our ability of doing right judgment,
这个想法和我一样。不过我是支持的。认为人们有判断力--〉能reasoning作者: hatty 时间: 2004-8-22 01:30:42
Society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect—that is, on reasoning and other cognitive skills.
Whether the society paid enough emphasis on the intellect, including the capabilities of reasoning and other cognitions, as the speaker assert? I fundamentally agree with the speaker's assertion.
To begin with, the emphasis paid on reasoning is too limited. Although we have learned and trained such capability from the day we came into a high school, actually, the occasion s we use it in our daily life are very very rare. Take people's attitude to the so-called authorities in certain field for example. People usually regard the words and opinions of the authorities as something absolutely correct and will never fail. Few people will question the authors个人感觉这个用法容易有歧义，换一个，person in power什么的都可以，感觉有的词不一定非要大，非要难才好，用好了常用词很关键的。。。扯远了，flyxw用词很严谨了，尤其是限时了，很羡慕的说。。。一直没有挑出毛病来，这里就多说点了，呵呵. Even when they have learned the capability of reasoning, which can make people to 去掉to吧analyze and question, people who use the reasoning capability in their lives are very rare. 先说occasions…非常少，现在又说people非常少，但是似乎其他用语都一样，显得重复了，而且好象再说一个意思Not only in the attitude towards the authority刚才用了复数，这里最好也加上s, but also in the attitude有点多了 to the various so-called facts and the superficial phenomena of the world, people show little emphasis on reasoning.这句语法好象有问题，至少不正式 Take the large amount of appealing advertises这个不是名词形式 in all kinds of media nowadays for example, few people can completely keep a cool brain and use the reasoning capability to analyze them. Most of the commons这个词组对么？我不确定。。。天都开始亮了，有点困了, unfortunately,句子缺主语 can realize the truth masked under the appealing surface. For these reasons，复数, I assert that reasoning capability in fact calls，主谓一致 little attention to our society, although we actually has主谓一致 this capability.
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To conclude, I fundamentally agree with the speaker in that the emphasis placed on the capability of reasoning and the cognition by our society is so limited and far away from enough.