What this chapter will buildDistinguish questions about physical existence, experience, possibility, cultural meaning and imagined worlds.
Start here — no earlier chapter is needed.
Physical and experienced realityPlanned
Compare an external event with how it is perceived and later described.
Possible and imagined worldsPlanned
Distinguish logical possibilities, physical hypotheses and a story's invented premises.
Models and interpretationsPlanned
Identify what a model predicts and what additional meaning an interpretation assigns.
Claims and their statusPlanned
Label an observation, argument, tradition, testimony and fictional premise in a sample text.
Choosing an entry questionPlanned
Choose one question and the kind of answer that would address it.