>video or article on how to read better, deeper, more analytically, more critically>it's just AdlerIs this a case where someone (Adler) just figured it out and now the problem is solved?
>>25457563Get into the Trivium and "critical thinking", that's what higher level literacy is all about.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOcy6RHw7A8***the Trivium***https://archive.org/details/the-trivium-the-liberal-arts-of-logic-grammar-and-rhetoric-sister-miriam-joseph***critical thinking***https://annas-archive.gl/md5/e484cec0f288c6e9ee68176e11f77ef9***logic***https://archive.org/details/easylessonsonrea01whathttps://archive.org/details/elementarylesson01jevohttps://archive.org/details/artoflogicalthin00atkihttps://archive.org/details/logicorrightuseo00watthttps://archive.org/details/logick_2507_librivoxhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWjNDMbkdSl8Go4uRLZfGQnnFe8gMSOohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8MyllahXgwtable of contents: https://heritagebooks.org/content/Logicsample.pdf***grammar/Latin***https://archive.org/details/latinforbeginner0000benjhttps://archive.org/details/CommentariesOnTheGallicWarCaesarCompletelyParsedBookIhttps://archive.org/details/completely-parsed-cicero-oration-1https://archive.org/details/fully-parsed-horace-odes-translation-pub-cohttps://books.google.com/books/about/The_Aeneid_of_Virgil.html?id=xhZAAAAAYAAJAlso, look into:>classical education>the seven liberal arts
>>25457563>>25457620Also, unironically study Euclid.https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/538025407/#538039194https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25445011#p25446367
>>25457563I can recommend something, but you won't be able to read it deeply enough.
>>25457620I've heard of the Trivium. I'll look into this, thanks anon.>>25457639Euclid is unironically one of my favorites. It's probably the single most influential book to my critical thinking ability.
>>25457639>>25457708How do you go about reading Euclid to aid in critical thought? As far as I know his book the Elements is just geometry and math. But I am interested in learning as to how I can apply it to aid in critical thinking
>>25457939Nvm its already linked my bad, thanks
>>25457939>As far as I know his book the Elements is just geometry and math>As far as I know is just geometry and mathalways has been
>>25458228no
>>25457563Adler makes god-tier videos
>>25457939Read Measurement by Lockhart
>>25457563Nah, there's tons of other methods.Adler is the how to win friends and influence people of how to read.
>>25457939>>25457941Read the post I linked:https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/538025407/#538039194and read the article I linked in that post:https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jan-30-oe-crease30-story.htmlI also linked Lewis Carroll's book in that post. Picrel is from that book. It's showing how the "propositions" in Elements build upon each other culminating in the 47th proposition which is the Pythagorean theorem. Each "proposition" is a mathematical proof.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_proofA mathematical proof is an argument. It works exactly like arguments in words. It's a book primarily about logic. The way the book takes very simple ideas and synthesizes them into complex ideas applies to any kind of ideas, even though the book uses geometric ideas for illustration. So the book is really about how to synthesize complex structures of thought and language from simpler elements, and how to analyze complex structures of thought and language into simpler elements.synthesize = to combine different parts or ideas to form a single, complex wholeanalyze = to break something complex down into its smaller parts to understand how it works or what it consists ofWhile the book engages in synthesis, you can just as well look it backwards, analysis, that's basically the Socratic method.
>>25460877>It's showing how the "propositions" in Elements*in book one of Elements
>>25457939>>25457708Give me qrd on Euclid please. Everyone swears by it but, when I glance at the text, it just looks like an archaic instruction of geometry which most people learn high school.
>>25460877>>25460895Well shit, bad timing on my part. Still open to opinions on the subject.
>>25460895It is an instruction manual for an archaic form of geometry, that's true, but it's also an instruction manual for building an airtight logical framework. Every geometric construction in the book is dependent upon and a natural consequence of previous constructions, solidly and irrefutably going back to the first axioms. It trains you to think this way, both to build on what already exists, and to examine how what exists came to be, and that's applicable in all sorts of areas of life. It's especially useful for and applicable to rhetorical arguments, both for building your own and for critically examining others'.
>>25460920Excellent explanation, thank you anon. I'll have grab a copy to see if it'll smooth over some of my retardation.
>>25460976That guy just asked chatgpt to make a summary of my post >>25460877, or it's a bot. As I said in the warosu post I linked earlier it's not a good idea to just get a copy of Elements and try to read it.
