No, not syllogisms. Rather, the technique of describing wide vistas before
narrowing down the scope.


Dr. Wesley Britton
Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles
www.drwesleybritton.com


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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shoshana
Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:52 PM
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Subject: Re: Life on the Mississippi passage

Are you talking about the deductive method?

Susan

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> On Aug 24, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Wesley Britton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I have a question about one passage in Life on the Mississippi. I 
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> will be very familiar to many of you.
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> It's the passage where we first get a birds-eye view of a place along 
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> Back in grad school, a professor used a term to define this technique 
>of  moving from the general to the specific, but I can't figure out now 
>what  term he meant.
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> Any ideas?
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> Dr. Wesley Britton
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> Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles
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> www.drwesleybritton.com
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