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YOU are better than YOU think. Show yourself  how:  

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Read  logic chapters 1 to 5  in online volume Three Skills for Algebra  for greater skills & confidence in  work 
and study.

Learn to read notes and textbooks like a lawyer, so that no nuance, no subtlety and no clause escapes your attention.

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 Logic chapters 1 to 5  re- appear not in sequence, as is or longer,  in  Volume 1A,  Pattern Based Reason, Bon Appetite.

Logic Mastery
 Amazing, Amusing, Amorous,  Delicious, Delightful, Edifying, Strengthening Elixir. 
It eases work & learning difficulties Makes the hard easier. Opens eyes. Leads to greater precision.
in reading and
writing

Logic mastery makes the hard, easier. Logic mastery  leads to better, stronger and richer comprehension.  Logic mastery  improves reading and writing.  Logic mastery ease learning difficulties.  Logic mastery gives a headstart.  In sum, logic mastery  will develops critical thinking, improve reading and writing, and give a firmer base for work and studies at many levels. Good luck.


After logic  (a) continue reading Three Skills for Algebra, chapters 8 to 14  and do so alongside site area on solving liinear Equations ; or (b) see this calculus starter lesson and Volume 3, Why Slopes  & More Math, chapters 2 to 6;

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What may be learnt and when depends on how skills and concepts are developed. Making the hard easier and clearer will allow earlier & richer development of skills and concepts.


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More Elements of Reason
Chapter 9

The previous chapters show how reliable rules and patterns can be used to arrive at conclusions or judgments. This raises the question: how can we recognize reliable rules and patterns? This second group of chapters on reason describes the origins, limitations and organization of rule- and pattern-based knowledge in all arts and disciplines.

The problem of identifying reliable implication rules and reliable information is described but not solved, except for the description of empirical methods of coping in science and technology. This identification problem touches many subjects. Students of critical thinking, persuasion, philosophy, mathematics, science and technology should find its discussion in these chapters helpful.

About the Next Chapters

Previous chapters also show how rules and patterns can be used one at a time or one after another to get conclusions. The use and chaining together of implication rules is called deductive thinking. The next group of chapters describe more elements of reason. The chapters in question, namely

give views of reason, persuasion and knowledge in our schools and communities and in our technical areas of knowledge. These chapters speak about how and where rules and patterns are needed, written, discovered or extracted from experience. This information itself is needed to recognize when and where the rules and patterns can be applied, and to be aware of their reliability or limitations.

The chapter Responsibility tries to clarify the meaning of liability and responsibility for actions and accidents. Then it talks about how liability and responsibility for our actions impose limits on our freedom. Principles for responsibility are suggested.

The chapter Accidental Patterns describes how human behavior which we have seen in the past may be accidental or coincidental. So we can have no expectation of this behavioral pattern continuing. This raises the problem of identifying which patterns of behavior are reliable and not just accidental or coincidental. How can we be (almost) sure that one event causes another? For technical areas of knowledge but not for human behavior, an answer is given in the chapter Origin of Rules. This chapter echoes and reinforces the discussion of Accidental Rules in the chapter Implication Rules.

The chapter Islands and Divisions of Knowledge describes how one- and two-way implication rules may link together rules and patterns of our communities and in our technical knowledge. Some parts of knowledge may be connected to others by chains of reason while other parts may be separate.

The chapter Objective Processes explains the notion of objectivity. The following of rules and laws in a fashion which gives repeatable and reproducible results independent of whom or what applies them leads to the concept of objective thought and actions in technological, in community or bureaucratic processes. Processes and results which are repeatable and reproducible are not necessarily optimal.

The chapter Origin of Rules and Patterns first describes how rules and laws are written or agreed to in society. Then it describes how reliable rules and patterns are recognized in our technical areas of knowledge (except for mathematics). The inference problem in empirical thought is to identify, draw, induct or extract from experience or tests, those rules and patterns which are reliable and not accidental. The word induct means to draw or extract. Inductive reasoning in empirical thought (not mathematics) refers to the identification of rules and patterns from experience. 

 Inductive reasoning in mathematics refers to the longer chains of reason associated with the principle of mathematical induction. The meaning of the phrase Inductive reasoning in mathematics refers to the longer chains of reason associated with the principle of mathematical induction.

The chapter Discovery of Objective Ways speaks about the non-objective, subjective and sometimes creative approaches in which objective ways are found. Problems for which solutions are not dictated by others leave room for thought and experimentation. Of course, hard thought and experimentation can be avoided if we can use a previously found solution known to work well. Sometimes that is preferable.

The chapter Euclidean Model of Reason describes a two thousand year old model (and method) for organizing technical knowledge. This method was first seen in the geometric works of Euclid and his followers. These works suggest how clear definitions and clear assumptions together with chains of reason can be used to firmly derive conclusions. Law-makers, theologians, scientists and mathematicians have often tried to follow this model in their areas of reason besides geometry. One reason for studying mathematics was to meet this model. The works of Euclid suggest an ideal we would like to achieve or approximate as well as possible.

The chapter Views of Mathematics describes how the first principles of arithmetic-based mathematics came from experience, and how by trial and error, calculations that work have been found in many disciplines. Then this chapter mentions the effort to follow the Euclidean Model of reason in mathematics and the associated disappointment. Not all is certain. Finally, the classroom view of mathematics after elementary school is described. The latter could skipped on first reading.

The last chapter in this group, Sense and Knowledge, speculates about the origin of self-consciousness and of our ability to tell and remember stories, theories or ideas linked together. As usual, more can be said or suggested in speculation (or rumor mongering) than proven. Serious students of reason and mathematics will not take the speculation seriously.



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Volume 1A, Pattern Based Reason

 Chapters 1 to 24

FOREWORD
Three Remarks

1 Introduction
2 Communication
3. Elements of Reason
4 Implication Rules
5. Deception
6 Chains of Reason
7 Longer Chains
For & From Consistency
8. Language Change
9 Next Chapters
10 Responsibility
11 Accidental Patterns
12 Knowledge Islands
13 Euclidean Logic
14 Deductive & Empirical Views of Mathematics
15 Objectivity
16 Origin of Rules
and Patterns
17 Objective Ways

18. Waking up
19. Symbols  & Logic
20. Pronouns or Symbols
21. Truth Tables I.
22. Truth Tables II
22. Biconditional
22. Contrapositive
23. IF-THEN table
24. Indirect Reason Again

To reason often means to persuade someone of the need for an idea or action. That someone could be yourself. So be careful.

1A Logic Postscripts
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+Proof by Absurdity alias proof by contradiction
+How the demand for consistency supports the law of the excluded middle
+Reality versus or with the aid of Imagination
+Links for reason, logic and crtical thinking
+Three Remarks
+History Lost or Missing

There is a difference between
knowing how to spend money,
and having money to spend.

There is likewise a difference
between mastering a skill
and having meeting a situation in which it applies.

 



 


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