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How to read a book (3rd Level - Analytical (Rules in 3 stages (Stage 1:…

- - - - Rule 1: classify
        
        expository
        
        theoretical
        
        history
        
        science
        
        philosophy
        
        practical
        
        narrative
      - Rule 2: unity
        
        plot
        
        plan
        
        title
        
        preface
      - 3: structure
        
        outline
      - 4: author's intentions
        
        main question of the book
        
        main problem to solve
      - QUESTION
        
        What a book is about
    - - Rule 5: come to terms with an author
        
        1 word - many terms
        
        1 term - many ways to word
        
        find key words
        
        technical words
        
        meaning of words
      - Rule 6: sentences and propositions
        
        those that give you trouble
        
        afformatioins
        
        denials
        
        reasons
        
        what sentences mean
        
        state in your own words
        
        without reasons - just opinions
      - Rule 7: arguments
        
        find paragraphs
        
        construct yourself otherwise
      - Rule 8: Solution
      - QUESTION
        
        What is being said in detail?
    - - General maxims of intellectual etiquette
        
        Rule 9: understand first
        
        Rule 10: no emotions
        
        Rule 11: give reasons
        
        disagreements about knowledge remiadiable
        
        demands to give reasons for disagreements
      - special criteria for points of criticism
        
        show where author
        
        to disagree
        
        misinformed
        
        asserts false facts
        
        illogical
        
        non sequitur
        
        conclusion does not follow from reasons
        
        inconsistency
        
        2 incompatible things
        
        uninformed
        
        does not have facts relevant to the point
        
        facts change the point
        
        to suspend judgement
        
        analysis or account is incomplete
        
        to agree
        
        fail in all disagree points
        
        job is done
        
        you are enlightened
      - QUESTION
        
        Is it true? What of it?
  - - - done analytical reading
      - book still unintelligible
    - - relevant experiences
        
        common
        
        available to all alive people
        
        special
        
        has to be sought for
      - other books
      - commentaries
      - reference books
- - - - physical
        
        vision
        
        hearing
      - speach
        
        clearly
        
        use sentences in correct order
      - personal
        
        ready to learn
        
        wants to learn
    - - understand few 100 words
      - read simple books
- - - - 1 title and preface
        
        category
        
        subject
        
        author's angle
      - 2 table of contents
        
        structure
      - 3 index
        
        topics
        
        terms
      - 4 publisher's blurb
      - 5 main chapters
        
        form vague view about the book
        
        summaries
      - 6 skim
        
        main thread
        
        last pagges
    - - not pausing for not understood
      - different speeds
        
        no regression
        
        comprehending