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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7928388" data-attributes="member: 23751">Yeah.&nbsp; I don't think we are all that far apart.&nbsp; There's definitely abstraction at work.&nbsp; That abstraction is what forms the foundation that &quot;teaches&quot; the PC his new ability.&nbsp; Think back.&nbsp; How many times have you just suddenly known how to do something fairly difficult?&nbsp; Probably none or next to none.&nbsp; Your experiences, though, however they came to you, probably came together at some point and enabled you to do something.&nbsp; Perhaps something you previously couldn't do years before, but when you were older and had done more, it was suddenly much easier or even easy.&nbsp; I've been using practice as my example, but that's not the only way such &quot;teachings&quot; happen.&nbsp; Any other appropriate abstract that works for you will suffice.&nbsp; I provided an example and one of my faults is that when someone challenges an example, I defend it and get caught up defending the example to vigorously instead of just saying it was an example and moving on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7928388, member: 23751"] Yeah. I don't think we are all that far apart. There's definitely abstraction at work. That abstraction is what forms the foundation that "teaches" the PC his new ability. Think back. How many times have you just suddenly known how to do something fairly difficult? Probably none or next to none. Your experiences, though, however they came to you, probably came together at some point and enabled you to do something. Perhaps something you previously couldn't do years before, but when you were older and had done more, it was suddenly much easier or even easy. I've been using practice as my example, but that's not the only way such "teachings" happen. Any other appropriate abstract that works for you will suffice. I provided an example and one of my faults is that when someone challenges an example, I defend it and get caught up defending the example to vigorously instead of just saying it was an example and moving on. [/QUOTE]

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