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Mortimer J. Adler

“In the first case, we may have obtained information, but we may not have increased our understanding. If the book is completely intelligible from cover to cover, then the author and the reader are like two minds with the same frame. The symbols on the page simply express the common understanding that the reader and writer shared before they met.”

Mortimer J. Adler, How to read a book
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How to read a book How to read a book by Mortimer J. Adler
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