Talk:Synthetic thinking
Add topicLatest comment: 7 months ago by ~2025-36406-80 in topic A lot of problems in this article
A lot of problems in this article
[edit]Firstly, not a single English language source. Secondly, the explanations are not quite understandable.
"... form of thinking that uses the function of a phenomenon within a larger system to explain it."
Explain it? What is "it"? The system? The function? The phenomenon?
"An example of synthetic thinking is explaining the organs of the human body in terms of the role they play in the organism, ..."
Heart pumps blood. That is its role and it is revealed by looking at what it actually does. That isn't thinking at all, it is simply observing. And if you know the role of the organ, then in what sense there is still something to be explained? ~2025-36406-80 (talk) 23:11, 3 December 2025 (UTC)