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Memorizing Complex Ideas
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You've already done an exercise in which you try to represent complex arguments and complex ideas. But how do you commit complex arguments to memory? How do you take a complex and difficult text, such as Confucius, and reduce to a few principles that you can easily memorize and get to know. Since representing a complex idea or argument is similar to writing a study guide, it follows that you would proceed along the same lines. First, you need to identify the central problem or argument and then you need to identify all the parts of the argument and all the parts of each of these arguments. You then need to define the relationship between these parts and how they lead to the conclusion the argument arrives at. In other words, you need to produce a hierarchy of information in which subordinate ideas are clearly related to central ideas.
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