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Old 02-06-2009, 12:56 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Take a problem and apply random models to it while asking the question: "What would that mean?"
The point would be to expand the amount of different models that one uses to look at problems.
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That may sound like gobbledegook. But its not. Deduction is using algebra. Induction is inventing algebra (or a new algebraic principle). Almost all thinking processes are a combination, but we all have a proclivity towards one or the other.
You can only use algebra once you modeled the problem.
Building models and choosing the right model for a problem is the difficult thing.

Afterwards you can use linear thinking to become a solution but you won't get a good model for your problem that way.
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