| |
| | Case-Based Reasoning |
 | | We are, in essence, creating theories about the minute details in the world around us, trying to create a theory of dry cleaners that will help us to select the right one, or a theory of state government, or the behavior of our friends that will allow us to better function in the world. |
 | | We are constantly accumulating cases and comparing those cases to the cases we have already accumulated in a effort to understand the next case that will appear. |
 | | Or, to put this another way, being educated means, in its deepest sense, having access to a wealth of cases from which to generalize. |
| www.engines4ed.org /hyperbook/nodes/NODE-23-pg.html (550 words) |
|