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The Notebook on COMMON SENSE, ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED
is devoted to development, exposition, and illustration of what may be the most important of all fields of knowledge:
WHAT IS GENERALLY TRUE AND IMPORTANT =
COMMON SENSE
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WISDOM
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JUDGEMENT AND MATURITY
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SCIENCE IN GENERAL
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TECHNIQUES FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS
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TECHNIQUES FOR AVOIDING MISTAKES
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SOME PARTS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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SOME PARTS OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
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AVOIDANCE OF LOGICAL FALLACIES
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PURPOSES:
- to help you avoid pitfalls
- to prevent mistakes before they happen
- to display new paths around old obstacles
- to point out new solutions to old problems
- to stimulate your resourcefulness
- to increase your accomplishments
- to improve your capacities
- to help you solve problems
- to give you more tools to think with
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8 REASONS TO BE INTERESTED IN THE FIELD OF COMMON SENSE, WISDOM, AND GENERAL SCIENCE
COMPUTERS are important —
But the computer field is over 25 years old. Here is a new field where you can get in on the ground floor to make your mark.
MATHEMATICS is important —
But this field is more important than mathematics, because common sense, wisdom, and general science have more applications.
WISDOM is important —
This field can be reasonably called “the engineering of wisdom”.
COMMON SENSE is important —
This field includes the systematic study and development of common sense.
SCIENCE is important —
This field includes what is common to all the sciences, what is generally true and important in the sciences.
MISTAKES are costly and to be AVOIDED —
This field includes the systematic study of the prevention of mistakes.
MONEY is important —
The systematic prevention of mistakes in your organization might save 10 to 20% of its expenses per year.
OPPORTUNITY is important —
If you enter or renew your subscription to both Computers and Automation and the Notebook on Common Sense at the same time, direct to us, — you may take off $2.00 per year from the total cost.
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Topic: THE SYSTEMATIC PREVENTION OF MISTAKES
*Already Published*
Preventing Mistakes from:
- Failure to Understand
- Forgetting
- Unforeseen Hazards
- Placidity
*To Come*
Preventing Mistakes from:
- Bias
- Camouflage
- Interpretation
- Distraction
- Gullibility
- Failure to Observe
- Failure to Inspect
- Prejudice
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Topic: SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF GENERAL CONCEPTS
*Already Published*
The Concept of:
- Expert
- Rationalizing
- Feedback
- Model
- Black Box
- Evolution
- Niche
*To Come*
- Strategy
- Understanding
- Teachable Moment
- Indeterminacy
- System
- Operational Definition
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