#19 - Professor: It has been argued that freedom of thought

[mollylynch]

Hi! If intellectual discipline means looking at all possible implications/consequences, how is A. "those who limit their line of thought to a particular orthodoxy" an example of intellectual discipline? I thought this was an example of freedom of thought.

[Rachael Wilkenfeld]

It's a type of intellectual self-control. Organized thought and disciplined thought go together. Freedom of thought is more exploratory without limitations. Where is your support for the idea that it's freedom of thought? What language would you point to that supports your interpretation?

[mollylynch]

Ok, so basically A is wrong because the author is arguing against FT necessary for IP. Thinkers who limit their line of thought are displaying intellectual discipline, which supports intellectual progress, not hinders it.

[Adam Tyson]

I don't think that's a good interpretation of answer A, Molly. The problem with answer A is that we have no information about "a particular orthodoxy." The stimulus never spoke about that, so that answer fails to connect the ideas that were presented in the stimulus and does nothing to support the conclusion.

Don't equate this completely new idea to intellectual discipline, or to anything else in the stimulus, because it is not like anything else in the stimulus.