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Making Up Facts

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
I think I'll stop reading Willingham if he persists in making stuff up.

He writes, "Prior knowledge is vital to comprehension because writers omit information. For example, suppose you read “He just got a new puppy. His landlord is angry.” You easily understand the logical connection between those sentences because you know things about puppies."

It is no such thing. The two sentences have the form ...
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