MORE ON UNDERSTANDING(1,2) AND LOGIC 10

Let's take a broader view of Logic 10, and its relation both to understanding a situation, and the development of a science (an organized body of knowledge).

Logic 10: The value of a datum is established by the amount of alignment (relationship) it imparts to other data.

Cognitions(3)
Every day is filled with cognitions. Generally when we meet new situations, we observe them and then ask "What's going on?", while looking for a pattern (or key datum) that will help us comprehend it.

I once observed a brother deep in thought for 10 minutes after a stressful interview with a Mr. X. Then his head came up and he said. "Oh, he's a politician!" (meaning concerned with ego, clout, and power.) In this way he aligned (and understood) Mr. X's actions by using this pattern as a key datum.

In Chemistry
The Atomic Theory of the elements led to enormous advances in Chemistry, followed by a recognition that these elements combine in definite weight proportions, and Mendeleyev's alignment of them in the Periodic Table.

In Medecine
Pasteur's germ theory, arising from his work with why some wines went bad, led to important advances in controlling and understanding disease.

With the help of the microscope, it provided a key datum for understanding a wide field, from Lister's recognition of the need for sterile techniques (Doctors had actually been spreading disease) to Jenner's discovery of protection against smallpox by using cowpox as a vaccine.

But the key and aligning datum here was the recognition of tiny living microbes, what they could do, and how they could be controlled.

Running Goals
The value of finding and running goals was their aligning power. They "made sense" out of one's experiences.

One dramatic everyday example of this is the father who asks a boy, "What are your intentions towards my daughter?" An important question. I observed one father whose daughter had just begun dating go through some wild and anxious fantasies about what was happening in the back seat of the boy's car.

A knowledge of someone's intentions helps align and clarify ANY situation.

The Science of Organizing Sciences
Logics(4) 8 and 10, among others, are explicit principles for organizing any body of knowledge. The Logics serve as a set of codified heuristics(5). They obviously guided Hubbard, and his discovery and formulation of them is a valuable contribution.

Along with the essay on "The Scientific Method," Appendix II of DMSH; these Logics (and Pre-logics) go a long way toward helping us answer the question "How did he do it?"
 

1 Understanding is composed of affinity,reality, and communication. It's an action. I.e., an attraction to a given reality (set of agreements) leads to a communication and involvement with it.

2 Also, the result of aligning phenomena (data) with a key datum. E.g., Hubbard aligned a large variety of data with the engram.

3 Cognition, 1. as-ising aberration with a realization about life. (HCOB 26 Apr 71 I) 2. a pc origination indicating he has "come to realize." It's a "What do you know, I..." statement (HCOB 14 May 69 II) 3. something a pc suddenly understands or feels. "Well, what do you know about that?" (HCOB 25 Feb 60) Tech Dict 1979.

4 a Logic: a guiding or organizing principle for aligning and establishing a coherent body of knowledge. A clarified and codified heuristic.

5 Heuristic, a practical rule-of-thumb serving as a guide to discovery. In literal Greek, a true nose. New scientific instruments, such as the microscope, geiger counter and e-meter can be viewed as heuristic tools which aid us in making new discoveries.