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How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler

Books Are Great

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What's the Difference Between a Word and aTerm?

The terms are the important words as they are defined by the author. A term takes into account the author's understanding and the context in which that word is used. So it's kind of when, yr, when you're going through the book, it's trying to perceive what the author is already, is trying to say with what you already think of the word. But i guess that goes back to why you need to do the first levels first, to skim, to understand kind of what the the terms and definitions of those terms are for that author.

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