Mind Transformation 139

139.
S: 7.4
a: 3:30
w: 11:30
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 A Rule Book for Arguments, Brilliant (online courses), C – 180, W – 5, P – 7, D – 16, S – 5, S1 – 5.
c.p. – 1, u – 3, m – 11.
I will think in English. I’ve almost finished reading a book about arguments. And what’s even more important is I understood it quite well. I think I can use every chapter of this book creating my own exercises and describing each rule with my own examples. It’s a good idea to apply these rules for discussions on speaking clubs. I just take a rule and develop some thoughts according to it. For example, the first rule is distinguishing premises and a conclusion. If I want to develop any idea I need strong premises which could defend my main conclusion. What are the premises? And what is the conclusion? Okay, If I say, i.e., “Learn English! Learning improves your brain,” it will be an argument because it entails a reason to learn English. My premise is “learning improves your brain.” My conclusion and premises are quite explicit here. However, premises also may be implicit. If I say, for instance, “You’ve never come to our speaking club, and therefore, though you’ve read this post, you don’t understand what I’m talking about,” there are two premises, and one of them is implicit. The explicit one is “you’ve never come to our speaking club.” Another premise is a general fact about my writing, which you probably don’t know: to understand my writing, you have to come to our speaking club. Together these premises imply that you don’t understand my writing…
There was found a cool source of fruitful education: Brilliant.org. Coursera seems to be a toy for children comparatively to this site.

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