RUL3 - Ask at night how what you’ve learned that day fits into your web of ideas, and search for overlaps and contradictions. Most people do not do this.

“Does your explanation cover every point?” – Sherlock Holmes

“One should always look for a possible alternative and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.” – Sherlock Holmes

Related:

• 1-1a4b2 Problems arise only when you reason via abduction
• On web of ideas
  • 1-2d You have to know your problem-situation (and your web of ideas) as best as you can to judge the merit of new explanations
  • 1-2e You literally MAKE a decision by creating the best explanation that you can from the web of ideas that you have at the moment (i.e., abduction-guessing)