Philosopher Does Analysis (Paragraph Tree)
Paragraph:
I wonder if you might have more immediately actionable problems than that, that might be a better immediate focus for your time and energy. I would guess that that is the case - that there are such more actionable problems. So then focusing on the SENS stuff would be an error. Note that this guess of mine doesn’t necessarily contradict the idea that you should spend a bunch of time on something like SENS - but there might be an order involved where it’s like, you work on some other stuff first and then on something like SENS. Just some thoughts.
I made a short bullet point list to summarize:
- actionable problems, focus time energy
- that is the case
- focus error
- note, guess not contradict work on sens
- order, first some stuff then some sens
Then I made this tree:
watching the video
root = conclusion
I didn’t put conclusion as root. I thought of it more of as start of argument and then follow logic to end up at conclusion.
feedback on video
showing variable technique even if not necessary was good.
I was confused about which clause “X might be a better focus” referred to until 11:00. Just because the paragraph was on screen so I paused and tried to find the match. I didn’t catch that the simplifications were on the same line in the transition at 5:15. Although I think it’s reasonably to expect the viewer to catch that. I think I was watching at 3x speed.
drawing on screen was helpful.
bullet point slides were helpful. I paused to read through them.
I liked that you pointed out possible errors in the paragraph at the end.
overall I think it was a good showcase of the usefulness of paragraph trees, I understood the paragraph better. also seeing Elliots answer gave more understanding of what was important than my tree.
Took 41 minutes.