The Sequence of Knowledge

Mao says that the sequence of knowledge starts with knowledge of individual or particular things and then moves toward knowledge of things in general. Only after humans understand the particular essence of many different individual things can we move to an understanding of things ingeneral. This is broadly known as inductive reasoning, starting from the specific and moving toward the general. Once this move has been made, humans then move back to the study of particular things, back to the specific from the general.