Floating abstractions sabotage many people's thinking. To keep concepts firmly connected to the world, concretization is critical. That means giving not just one example, but many, selected to capture the essentials of a given abstraction. In this workshop, we begin with a reliable technique for producing a number of examples, and then learn how to vary them and make them compellingly clear. For more information, click here .
True definitions are crucial to clear thinking.
In these tutorials, students learn the process of defining terms. Defining terms gives excellent practice in using examples to test your conclusions and in organizing your knowledge by means of fundamentals. The tutorial program consists of intense individual instruction. For more information, click here . As of March 1, I am no longer accepting new students for definitions tutorials.