Daily Productive Sharing 942 - Smarter Book Reading
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Scott Young believes that reading a book's rebuttal articles can help us better understand the book:
- Critical thinking requires a deep and broad understanding of a specific field. When reading a book, our understanding may not be as profound and extensive as the author's, making critical thinking challenging.
- Rebuttal reviews are usually written by experts in the same field who have a deep and broad understanding. They often address weaker points in the original work, complementing its shortcomings.
- Searching "book title" + "reviews" on a search engine can lead to finding such rebuttal reviews, preferably written by scholars rather than reviewers.
- Tools like ChatGPT can also provide relevant results using prompts like "What are the most frequently cited objections to opinion X?"
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Scott Young 认为阅读一本书的反驳文章能帮助我们更好地理解这本书：
- 批判性思维要求我们对一特定领域有深入而广泛地理解，而阅读一本书的时候，我们的理解不一定像作者那么深入而广泛，所以批判性思维也就无从谈起；
- 反驳类的书评一班都是同领域的专家所写，他们也对这一领域有深入而广泛的理解，而他们反驳的点一般都是原著中比较弱的点，正好弥补原著的不足；
- 使用搜索引擎检索“书名”+“评论”就能找到这样的书评，最好是读学者写的书评而不是书评者的书评；
- 使用 ChatGPT 之类的工具也可以获得相应的结果，prompt 是 “What are the most frequently cited objections to opinion X?”。
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