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Perhaps, but not necessarily. Sadly I've found most people have reasonable innate intelligence but were never taught logic. They were never given the subtle t
by scottLobster 9y ago
Perhaps, but not necessarily. Sadly I've found most people have reasonable innate intelligence but were never taught logic. They were never given the subtle tools need to even figure out basic problems on a logical basis, instead relying on intuition and some basic pattern recognition. Dealing with vast logical abstractions, even if put in layman's terms, simply overwhelms them.
You first have to teach them analysis, how to break things down and recombine them. A good example here is teaching beginning computer science students how to divide a large, complicated task into a long list of small tasks. Or teaching derivations in basic physics. It's something that's not really formally taught outside of the sciences, and that's a shame.
- moretai 9y agoAny books to get improve my logic muscle?
- ElonsMosque 9y agoBump, I'm curious about this aswell.
- scottLobster 9y agoThere are plenty of good books on Mathematical logic and set theory, but they're pretty dense, dry and tend to lack context. Honestly I'd recommend the more complex puzzle games. Top recommendation there would probably be SpaceChem: https://www.gog.com/game/spacechem https://www.gog.com/game/spacechem Solutions to each problem are readily available on youtube, and while it starts off extremely basic the mid and upper level puzzles force you to break things down into distinct parts and have them work together. Best part is there's theoretically thousands of solutions to every puzzle, so even if you crack and look one up, you can then challenge yourself to make a better solution in some way. In fact the game shows you metrics at the end of each puzzle, showing how your solution compared to other players in terms of time, number of parts used, etc. It's also a lot more entertaining than a textbook as has a pretty awesome soundtrack. :)
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 9y agoIf the books are dense and dry then how we teach them about logic.
- moretai 9y agoI'd still be interested if you had any books to recommend.
- moretai 9y agoBut nonetheless, this is exactly the kind of thing that will open the door for me! Thanks.