Figuring Things Out

Abstract

Introduction:  "'Beautiful - just beautiful . . . it seems to me you've discovered a wonderful rule that will work for any compound sentence beginning with of word 'if.'" (page 87, lines 13, 17-18).  Indeed, the "simple language" of the children in Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery has expanded in complexity and comprehensiveness, modeling the very process of logical inquiry with which it is concerned.