Notes I had while reading Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites:
But then you should look at what will actually help you do better text analysis, not just learn anything about grammar.
Lecture 7 and 8 in Peikoff’s course is not stuff I actually need right now. Maybe more of the course is also stuff I don’t need. I’m currently going through stuff I already know some about. I’m learning new stuff about those things and also improving, but I might be working on stuff I already crossed the relevant breakpoint on.
On the other hand, for building up your knowledge to CF, having lots of small, thin layers is good. Learn lots of little chunks. Do lots of little, gradual steps.
I think that right now with my Peikoff course is too big of a chunk. Instead I should learn a bit about paragraph analysis.
The day after that I decided I wanted to do paragraph analysis instead of more grammar. I want to start the paragraph analysis project so I’ll write the conclusion for this project.
Project Conclusion
Over 8 days I did:
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19:11 |
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| grammar videos and peikoff course |
19:11 |
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| _ meta |
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2:40 |
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| _ project template |
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1:00 |
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| _ watch grammar vidoes |
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2:36 |
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| _ peikoff course |
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13:55 |
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| _ read and take notes |
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4:26 |
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| _ lecture one |
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3:07 |
| _ lecture two |
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1:19 |
| _ listen in background |
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0:54 |
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| _ first try exercises |
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5:05 |
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| _ error correction |
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3:30 |
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As I said I went over a lot of material I already knew. Some new things were:
- noun pileup, when they’re ok and when they’re not
- what a fragment is
- the difference between direct and indirect object
- a verb can have a direct and indirect object. I think I’ve already done sentence with both before but I didn’t realize the verb had two objects
- I learned about why the conjunction view and “relater” view were contradictory
Elliot directed me to focus on finite vs nonfinite verbs instead of auxiliary/modal verbs. I haven’t studied that. I’ll do that in a future grammar project.
The success criteria was just to go through the material and follow up on the plan. But then I changed the plan and so I wanted to do less of the material. For when I still had the original plan I did follow it. So I guess it’s a success? I did learn things and I got more practice with grammar and grammar trees, but it wasn’t the most productive way to spend my time. Overall I feel kind of neutral about it, because it was better than doing no prerequisite practice.
Final verdict: success. But not the best project.