GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL.By Jared Diamond.Norton; 480 pages; $27.50.Jonathan Cape; £18.99GREAT books tend to propose simple, clarifying ideas.
After each take, the writers huddled around the actors and rearranged the syntax of the scene, clarifying ideas, cutting excesses, adjusting words, resetting props, and debating character points.
The difference, they say, has more do with experience, knowing what to expect, clarifying ideas in a book, and feeling less pressure about the possibility of losing.
So far, we have concentrated on the pragmatist maxim, the rule for clarifying ideas that, for both Peirce and James, was the core of pragmatism.
Among the critical thinking skills are comparing ideas about a reading, summarizing group opinions, drawing conclusion from the chart, clarifying ideas and speculating, paraphrasing, analyzing the facts, evaluating opinions, supporting and challenging a hypothesis, analyzing the author's point of view, separating fact from opinion, and analyzing cause and effect.
It was in the first place an exercise in clarifying ideas, with an eye to refining the ways in which the arts affect the passions: in other words, a refinement of complex ideas was taken to be the precondition of a refinement of practice.
For biological systems in which little is known about details or kinetics, phenomenological models that capture some aspect of the data may be helpful in clarifying ideas and suggesting targets for experimentation.
Theoreticians believe that grid cells and their connections to other neurons may finally clarify ideas about how the brain performs spatial navigation.
Writing also helps me clarify ideas.
Jung makes comments, clarifies ideas and answers his students' questions.
