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To: MacCoy who wrote (35991)	2/27/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

MacCoy--- First, you have to learn concentration, and the ability to sit still, or at least do something that does not require attention, for at least an hour at a time (preferably several hours, but start small). If you can't sit still, try walking. Anyway, whether you organize in you head, or on paper, you have to shape the data into a usable form, which is usually suggested by thematic relevance, and then you have to identify problems suggested by the data, knots, so to speak. Then, you generate hypotheses that might "untie" these knots. Finally, you treat each hypothesis in order, looking for weaknesses, then trying to answer your own objections. When you have finished, you may compare the hypotheses, and discover which one has come out the best, and at least provisionally adopt it, even if you are likely to revisit the question "down the road". Also, you should make an effort to re- formulate your results, and the main supporting arguments, in the most succinct terms possible, trying several times if necessary. All of this represents a description of dialectic, more or less as Plato understood it.