Logicionary

A New Kind of Learning

Though we're familiar with the common structure below, let's review it.  In the spirit of Haiku - hell, in the spirit of Feynman - let's start with the observed.  Something interesting.  I watch an airplane take off and climb high into the sky.  Amazing.  Let's verbalize that sentiment:  The airplane rises in the sky.  Now let's ask how this happens - what causes this?

I posit "air flows faster over the top of the wing".  I know this is reasonable, and read the completed if-then sentence:  "If air flows faster over the top of the wing, then the airplane rises in the sky".  Ridiculous.  I see no causality here, so let's extend the explanation by positing a further step:  Faster airflow creates lower pressure, which is lift.  Is this reasonable?  Of course it could use some cleaning up, for the purposes of explaining the airplane climbing into the sky, is it reasonable?  I think so.

I've then added my Haiku for this logical story.  I love this haiku.  I think this wonderfully captures the essence of the logical story I just told.

Now, let's see how well I did.  Let's see how YOU would do!  Let's suppose you were given the following below:  how would YOU complete the logical structure?  The same?  It validates my thought process.  Differently, yet still logically?  It suggests many things.  You can't complete it at all?  It suggests my logic was pretty poor.

Let's play some more:  How well would you complete the following causal explanation of the observance?

Let's take it one step further:  If all I gave you was the following Haiku, what picture would you form?  Do you see the airplane rising into the sky, as I did?  Do you see something else?  Do you see nothing at all?