Andy_McKenzie comments on Knowledge ready for Ankification - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 03 February 2012 12:30:55AM 0 points [-]

Just to be clear, what exactly do you mean by encoding this info in Anki decks?

To take an example from the cog neuro textbook, would the following work for inductive reasoning?

q: What do you call deriving an inference about a larger category by considering examples from within that category?

a: inductive reasoning

What about the reverse?

q: What is inductive reasoning?

a: deriving an inference about a larger category by considering examples from within that category

Would this be considered too long? Is this true of all of the terms on there?