Talk:On Practice

Experiencing and Changing
I think that when talking about understanding an object, you should go more into the process of experiencing it. Mao suggests having to change a thing in order to truly understand it. This is a problematic suggestion that may need to be tackled or at least mentioned. I do think there could be more talking about actually experiencing the thing you are trying to understand. There is more of an acknowledgement of needing to practice but much not more expansion on this idea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drobinson01 (talk • contribs) 21:33, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

If you wouldn't mind posting the quote your referring to that would be really helpful for me. For now, my response is that I don't think that statement about change leading to understanding being particularly problematic. I think he is just reinforcing the notion that logical knowledge needs to be tested in order for it to be true knowledge. By changing something I think he means for people to apply their logical knowledge to it. By noting the results of this application people figure out the legitimacy of their logical theories. Since the application of logical knowledge to something will change it Mao says changing a thing leads to understanding it. --Sammcallister (talk) 01:33, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I think that this article goes quite in depth about the philosophy behind Mao's statements, but is somewhat hard to navigate. It could be helpful to split the philosophy section into subsections so that information can be found added and refuted more easily. I think only three sections are really necessary at this point: Logical Knowledge (the second two paragraphs) True Knowledge (third paragraph) and Response to Rationalists and Empiricists (final paragraph) Chaleff91 (talk) 17:41, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

There is no one quote that I think should be added. I am suggesting going into more depth of how exactly Mao wants one to being "practicing." I think there could be more said about experiencing an object to understand it. It is explained that there needs to be practice and experience, but I feel there could be a better explanation of what exactly is meant by practice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.197.231 (talk) 21:08, 14 May 2012 (UTC)