{"id":769,"date":"2012-09-04T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/?page_id=769"},"modified":"2017-06-16T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:51:20","slug":"playing-the-believing-and-doubting-games","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/playing-the-believing-and-doubting-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Believing and Doubting Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Ways to Play the Doubting Game<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Find internal contradictions<\/li>\n<li>Find lapses in logic<\/li>\n<li>Doubt even reasonable assertions<\/li>\n<li>Look for imprecision<\/li>\n<li>Look for mistakes<\/li>\n<li>Uncover hidden (and not-so-hidden) assumptions and question them<\/li>\n<li>Compare with your own experiences\/read-ings\/observations to find places of dissonance with proposition<\/li>\n<li>Consider negative implications of proposition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ways to Play the Believing Game<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t doubt any assertions<\/li>\n<li>See other experiences or phenomenon in the light of the assertions<\/li>\n<li>Enter into the skin of a person with other perceptions<\/li>\n<li>Remain open; be willing to change your mind (at least during game)<\/li>\n<li>Find ways to believe by metaphor, analogies, association<\/li>\n<li>Find reasons that it makes sense to agree with the proposition<\/li>\n<li>Consider positive implications of proposition<\/li>\n<li>Imagine a belief system in which the proposition makes sense<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">This chart is based upon Peter Elbow&#8217;s concept of the believing and doubting games, which he explains in the appendix essay in\u00a0<em>Writing Without Teachers<\/em>. Some items are extracted directly from his text; others are extrapolations created in the spirit of his idea. As you might suspect&#8211;and as Elbow would predict&#8211;students (as well as scholars) have a much easier time with the doubting game than with the believing game<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ways to Play the Doubting Game Find internal contradictions Find lapses in logic Doubt even reasonable assertions Look for imprecision Look for mistakes Uncover hidden (and not-so-hidden) assumptions and question them Compare with your own experiences\/read-ings\/observations to find places of dissonance with proposition Consider negative implications of proposition &nbsp; Ways to Play the Believing Game &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/playing-the-believing-and-doubting-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing the Believing and Doubting Games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-769","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/769\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}