people would understand what you're saying. eg:ĭon't enforce a curfew is a simple idea. You're confusing a statement itself with other statements you would make at a later time in a discussion. To me, that means those statements aren't simple. > For the TCS examples you gave, I think I would get out of my depth pretty quickly if I was questioned about them. Those are the kinds of things I consider simple. The sentences I shared were about concrete, real, everyday things that Americans deal with. Here's why:, I think something is simple when I feel confident that (a) an average American would know what I mean, and if they didn't, I could pretty easily explain it in enough detail so they would get it. But I don't think they would have been good examples for me to give, because they aren't simple from my perspective. For some reason, I didn't consider saying some of the conclusions of TCS like that. You could have written, 'TCS says stuff about with the way children are treated by adults.' > I thought of saying 'TCS has to do with the way children are treated by adults.' But I thought that might be misleading by omitting other stuff that TCS deals with. > can you now 10, in 5min, with a similar mistake rate, and make them about TCS? or Objectivism or something u wanna learn about. > On Aug 27, 2016, at 8:00 PM, Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum wrote: On Aug 27, 2016, at 8:52 PM, Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum wrote: Those are the kinds of things I consider simple.įor the TCS examples you gave, I think I would get out of my depth pretty quickly if I was questioned about them. > Parents should be willing to provide 'breakfast' foods for their kids in the evening. > Parents shouldn't force their kids to go to school. > Parents shouldn't force their children to have bedtimes. > Parents shouldn't make their children brush their teeth. > i also would guess you knew the following: It would be a bit easier for me to come up with 10 questions about TCS than statements. I also thought of writing questions, but I incorrectly thought you asked for statements. So I was hesitant to write that given how little I understand of TCS. But it doesn't sound simple or clear or non-misleading. Like I could say: 'Computers have to do with sex.' And that's kinda true, in a way - people watch porn on computers, which has to do with sex.

I thought of saying 'TCS has to do with the way children are treated by adults.' But I thought that might be misleading by omitting other stuff that TCS deals with. > you could write some more stuff such as 'TCS has to do with parenting' and you could write some questions. I could say something similar for Objectivism. > I could quickly make *one* simple statement about TCS: 'I don't understand TCS'. Doing that for Objectivism or TCS seems way out of reach. At my current ability level, I think I would have to understand a subject pretty well before I could confidently and quickly write 10 simple, correct statements about it.

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