How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler
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What Is Mortimer Addler's Definition of Reading?
Reading a book could be defined as a billion different things. The better you are at identifying where those propositions are and what they're hinting at, the better you're going to understand the written work. So let's all be on the same terms. Let's all understand one another in terms of the way t t we're using these specific words. What are the propositions being made by these individual sentences? What are the arguments being made by the important paragraphs? And if after having done it, ern look at individual sentences as statements of ideas.
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