Philosophy Thoughts as and when

Happy Freethinkers Day! As a Freethinker Philosopher, I thought I'd discuss this holiday today and what it means to be a Freethinker.  The long-standing symbol for freethinkers is the pansy because, when the emblem was created, it reminded people of a person with their head bowed down, deep in thought. Later, pansies started to have offensive connotations for some people but this was not the original intention of this symbol so we must not erroneously mentally associate this with the positive meaning of the pansy flower for Freethinkers.  Freethinkers celebrate this day in honour of the 18th century freethinker, philosopher and political activist Thomas Paine. It was later made into a public holiday in the US. There is a statue of him in his hometown, Thetford, UK. Early in the 21st century, a BBC nationwide poll nominated Paine 34th in the top 100 greatest Brits. Freethinker is an umbrella term for, as the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries  aptly puts it, a "person who forms

 Happy #WorldLogicDay ! Logic can be as simple or as complicated as you wish or need it to be. There are many different forms of logic, they don't all look like some type of mathematical calculation nor should it be approached as though it were a branch of maths. It can be a useful tool for a range of academic subjects, from science to humanities. However, it is a fundamental, distinctive part of all philosophy, not some separate, non-philosophical subject as some see it e.g. those who refer to themselves as logicians not philosophers, despite being in a philosophy department 🤔🤷 You rarely see it in papers or books in the History of Philosophy, nevertheless I do use it in my History of Philosophy papers and books in order to clarify my argument. But I always explain the logic symbols in plain English so anyone can understand them! 🙂💪