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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (24652)	7/21/2006 10:25:35 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541518

The most important and complex things in life such as love, F=MA, E=MC2, etc can be reduced into something that everyone can understand. That, they can. There's a macro view and a micro view of everything. We choose to focus on one or the other as suits our particular purpose at any given time. Macro views can be very useful in terms of both understanding and communicating because they synthesize profound knowledge and make it accessible and adaptable in its simplicity. But to be useful they must be valid. A solid macro view requires analysis of the entire terrain. Oft times folks overgeneralize, for example, and derive inapt macro views from some minor component or some minor relational factor. Or concoct them to suit some bias without due regard to any of the components. Or simply use them out of context. There are lots of ways to mess up a macro view through an inapt reduction process. Some of these invalid macro views we call simplistic. A fully synthesized macro view based on profound knowledge and careful analysis has great utility. A simplistic one, OTOH, while having superficial charm, is folly.

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