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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J.…
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Charles Van Doren
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Reading is ACTIVE, more the better
Made of Acts, each requiring skill
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Learning types
- Instruction (or aided discovery)
- Focused on discourse, either by written word or listening - the art of being taught from books/disrouce
- Discovery (unaided)
- Investigation
- Research
- Reflection
- The art of reading nature or the world
Other requirements while learning:
- Thinking
- Senses
- Imagination
Levels of reading
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b. Superficial reading
- Reading the book without looking up things you dont understand (impedes understanding/reading if fixated on in first reading)
- Concentrate on things you do understand
Speed reading
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optimising fixations and regressions > thumb + 2 fingers as rabbit across page > use to increase concentration also
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Active reading questions
- WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?
(The First Stage of Analytical Reading - rules 1-4)
- WHAT IS BEING SAID IN DETAIL, AND HOW?
(Second stage of analytical reading - rules 5-8)
- IS THE BOOK TRUE, IN WHOLE OR PART?
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argument—a sequence of propositions, some of which give reasons for another
tautologies, common notions - self-evident propositions, status of indemonstrable but also undeniable truths
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