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 For better work & study skills, read logic chapters 1 to 5  in  Three Skills for Algebra. Sooner is better. Good luck.

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After logic  (a) continue reading Three Skills for Algebra, chapters 8 to 14  and do so alongside site area on solving linear2007 Equations ; or (b) see this calculus starter lesson and Volume 3, Why Slopes  & More Math, chapters 2 to 6;


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Accidental Patterns Again
Chapter 16

Previous: Observation of Physical Laws, Testing Conjectures

Suppose we are given a rule which involves the idea that every time a first situation A occurs. We can be sure that the rule is correct provided we can check that every time the first situation A happens, that the second situation B also occurs. This checking is possible (feasible) if we are reading a story. In the story the rule may be seen to always hold. So it has been verified. But, except for written stories describing past or fictional events, we cannot check that each time the first situation A occurs, the second situation B happens. An observation

Every time the first situation A happened, the second situation B also occurred 

represents history. Forcing the first situation A to occur will not make the second situation B occur if the pattern is accidental. For example, suppose two children have gone to school each day, for the past three weeks. This behavior or pattern gives no guarantee both will show up every day of the following week. The behavior of the observed children need not be governed by this pattern. The explanation of the children's attendance at school lies in a home life or health status which we have not seen. The pattern seen might have been accidentally established.

Observing the pattern

Every time the first situation A happened, the second situation B also occurred

in a given circumstance or setting C suggests the implication rule if A then B might hold in the circumstance C. Seeing that this pattern holds several times builds confidence in the reliability or truth of this implication rule. We may become very confident in the suggested implication rule — and perhaps take it for granted — but we cannot be sure. We cannot conclude for certain from observation or experience, that this implication rule is never disobeyed. In contrast, observing the occurrence of situation A once without the situation B in the given circumstance C shows that the rule can be disobeyed.

 


Chapter Sections: 16 Private Agreements ] 16 Public Laws ] 16 Physical Laws ] [ 16 Accidental Patterns ] 16 Reliable(?) Patterns ] 16 Scientific Method ] 16 Reaction to Failed Tests ] 16 Chaos ] 16 Statistical Inference ] 16 End Notes ]

Next: Reliable Patterns: Scientific Method, Prediction, Testing, Correction

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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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