noitanigami comments on Examples in Mathematics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: noitanigami 15 December 2013 11:47:43PM 1 point [-]

Speaking as a abstract thinker, examples itch. I can't work with someone throwing out examples on an idea I'm not fully clear about. The examples are too irritating for me to maintain my attention on the problem and I get stuck shooting down the parts of the examples that are too specific. I've learned to tolerate examples as a check, but I am not be able to work too deeply with example oriented thinkers.