Chapter 14 | Quotes From Pages 124-126 1.Intellectually blank assertions are deadly for the reader because they do not anchor his mind, they are not stimulating to read, and they present the very real danger that he will not in fact grasp what you are trying to say. 2.But there is an even more important reason for avoiding intellectually blank assertions, and that is that they cover up incomplete thinking, and thus cheat you out of a wonderful opportunity to move your thinking forward in an orderly and creative way. 3.Once you have derived an insight, you are free
intellectually to carry it forward in one of two ways: By commenting further on it (deduction) By finding others like it (induction). 4.For these reasons it is important that you make the effort to derive proper summary statements from your groupings.