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Old 10-09-2006, 07:33 PM
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Re: [RPG]: Mage: The Awakening, reviewed by C.W.Richeson (4/4)

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Originally Posted by John P. View Post
It's kinda like trying to teach someone trigonometry, and instead of giving him clear trigonometrical rules and a handful of actual triangles to test them on, you give him lots and lots of triangles and let him comeup with the gneral rules by himself. This is hardly productive, because in that later case, not only will he never be secure in what the rules are, but he'll also hae to redefine them whenever he's presented with a new, slightly different, triangle.
But, er, isn't that how trigonometry was developed in the first place?

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