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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PiMac who wrote (12542)	5/18/1999 9:49:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

PiMac---The problem with "Uncle Max " is that he is making a generalization based on inadequate data. It is not that he is not abstracting, but that he is doing a poor job of it. But since anyone over a certain age knows that dogs come in all shapes and sizes, the idea that he has a certain "mentality" is not a good enough explanation. That is why we speak of bias--- "Uncle Max" is not interested in the distinctions... The example that you give with your father is not a transference problem. He knows the kind of math that is relevant to accounting, but there are techniques, rules, and symbols specific to calculus that must be learned that he didn't learn very well. In fact, one of the mistakes that is common in learning math is to get tangled up in trying to figure out "why" instead of following the "recipe" and letting the "why" come later, or else you will fall behind... Everyone finds exceptions to the Ten Commandments, in the sense that there are admitted things like justifiable homicide or little white lies.... Although there is something to the idea of persistent differences in the way people or cultures handle abstraction, the power of abstraction comes with age, no one who is not retarded is simply a "Concrete". Additionally, Clinton's intellectually formative experiences should have been at Georgetown, Oxford, and Yale, not Hot Springs...