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The Logic of Data Series

August 24, 2022 – 8:37 PM

[This is a very abbreviated partial summary. To get full understanding, please study the Data Series. Note: DS 2 = Data Series number 2.]

In Data Series, Hubbard starts out by sketching an Ideal Scene for Logic. He says,

By establishing the ways in which things become illogical, one can then establish what is logic. (DS 2)

Hubbard then looks at the ways that things become illogical, and lists them as follows:

Omit a fact.
Change sequence of events.
Drop out time.
Add a falsehood.
Alter importance. (DS 2)

He then establishes logic as follows:

All relevant facts must be known.
Events must be in actual sequence.
Time must be properly noted.
The data must be factual, which is to say true or valid.
Relative importances amongst the data must be recognized by comparing the facts with what one is seeking to accomplish or solve. (DS 2)

These are the conditions that must be present in the scene of the activity that one is examining. These conditions are part of the Ideal Scene. Any departures from the Ideal Scene are outpoints. Hubbard says,

Using these conditions, we can analyze the data we have. But, the quality of the data analysis depends on one knowing the ideal organization and purpose on which the activity is based. This means one has to know what its activities are supposed to be from a rational or logical viewpoint. (DS 4)

When one decides to examine an activity for outpoints, one must first work out its IDEAL SCENE. But such ideal scene need not be long and complex. Hubbard says,

The entire concept of an ideal scene for any activity is really a clean statement of its PURPOSE. (DS 12)

But working out such a clean statement of PURPOSE and the Ideal Scene may not always be easy. A person’s fixed ideas can prevent him or her from working out a sane Ideal Scene. Hubbard cautions

The “idée fixe” is the bug in sanity. Whenever an observer himself has fixed ideas he tends to look at them, not at the information. Prejudiced people are suffering mainly from an “idée fixe.” The strange part of it is that the “idée fixe” they think they have isn’t the one they do have. (DS 8)

A person with fixed ideas confuses outpoints in his own thinking with outpoints in an activity. This is a grave error. Hubbard points out.

Errors are usually a comparison to one’s personal ideals. Outpoints compare to the ideal for that particular scene. (DS 9)

Therefore, Hubbard emphasizes again and again,

The purpose of the activity must be part of the ideal one has for that activity. The fact that something is actually operating and solvent can outweigh the untested advantages of changing it. (DS 8)

Hubbard cautions against opinions creeping into the Ideal Scene,

The moment that one goes into any dependence on opinion, he goes into quicksand and will see too late the fatal flaw in restoring anything. (DS 12)

According to Hubbard, statistics are the key to the awareness of the ideal and existing scenes.

Statistics are the only sound measure of any production or any job or any activity… Just as the purpose from which the ideal scene is taken must be correct, so must the statistic be all the more thoughtfully correct. (DS 12)

Hubbard provides a test for the correct Ideal Scene:

The correctly stated ideal scene will have a production statistic. (DS 13)

Hubbard provides an excellent example of working out the correct Ideal Scene and Statistics in Data Series 13. This example must be carefully studied. Once the Ideal Scene has been worked out with great care, one can start to examine the existing scene for the actual situation.

A situation is a major departure from the ideal scene. (DS 11)

One immediately starts to see outpoints (illogical departures from the ideal scene) in the existing scene. One should carefully differentiate between outpoints and errors.

It will be found that outpoints are really few unless the activity is very irrational. Simple errors on the other hand can be found in legions in any scene. (DS 9)

If your existing scene is very broad, you may have to narrow it down first. You do this by assigning the outpoints to areas of the existing scene. Then you look more closely at the area having the most outpoints.

We obtain an analysis of the situation by analyzing all the data we have and assigning the outpoint data to the areas or parts. The area having the most outpoints is the target for correction. (DS 4)

After narrowing the existing scene as necessary, one now looks for the situation.

A situation analysis only indicates the area that has to be closely inspected and handled. (DS 5)

The Ideal Scene may have to be refined for the narrowed down existing scene. This will make one see the relevant outpoints. One starts by listing these outpoints (not errors) as they come up in his awareness. This is pretty much like the Listing and Nulling procedure in Scientology. The moment you find the situation, all other outpoints will start to make more sense. One will now have the situation.

This means a wide and significant or dangerous or potentially damaging CIRCUMSTANCE or STATE OF AFFAIRS which means that the IDEAL SCENE has been departed from and doesn’t fully exist in that area. (DS 11)

The next step is to find out the “change” that brought about the situation. This may require pulling strings further on outpoints.

In order to resolve a situation fully one has to get the real reason WHY a departure from the Ideal Scene occurred. “Change” is the root of departures. One has to isolate THE change in order to obtain full recovery. (DS 12)

Once the WHY is found, one embarks on the handling of the situation.

Just as you proceed to the MOST MAJOR SITUATION—go big, when it comes to handling it usually occurs that reverse is true—go small! (DS 11)

Comments

Hubbard says, “By establishing the ways in which things become illogical, one can then establish what is logic.”

This is a circular statement, which omits the ideal scene for logic. The ideal scene for logic may be stated as ONENESS, which leads to the anomalies of discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), and disharmony (arbitrary data).

The outpoints of Data Series may be related to anomalies as follows:

Omit a fact (discontinuity)
Change sequence of events (inconsistency)
Drop out time (discontinuity)
Add a falsehood (inconsistency and disharmony
Alter importance (disharmony)

The outpoint of “Add a falsehood” can only be spotted as an inconsistency. You will need additional data to show the falsehood.

It is very important to work out the correct ideal scene. Hubbard cautions against fixed ideas corrupting the ideal scene. However, Hubbard had the fixed idea of “oneness is destructive of individuality.” Therefore, he did not believe in the overall ideal scene of ONENESS for logic.

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Subject Clearing Articles and Books

August 19, 2022 – 4:48 PM

Reference: The Book of Subject Clearing

As you study an article or a book on a subject, your purpose is to grasp it fully. The data contained in the material can be quite complicated or obscure. So, you carefully study one paragraph, or section, at a time.

When there confusion, doubt or perplexity in a paragraph, clear it up using the procedure given in Word Meanings. After each paragraph, or section, briefly write down your your understanding and any doubts or questions. It may help you identify anomalies after you complete your study of the article, or the chapter of the book.

Once you reach the end of the article, or the chapter, some of the anomalies that you observed earlier may get resolved. So, you review all your comments and write a summary of them at the end of the article, or the chapter. In the summary, you may also refer to the key words related to the anomalies still to be resolved.

Here is an example of a book that has been subject cleared: Hubbard 1952: A History of Man.

Gaps in Materials

As you make progress in your study of a subject as above, you become aware of the gaps in knowledge that you would like to fill. The most important gaps to fill are in the broadest concepts of the subject. So you become more selective in choosing the materials to study on that subject.

You might end up with a list of anomalies present in the subject.

Key Concepts & Glossary

You may keep a record of the key concepts in a subject from the broadest to the narrowest in that order. You may maintain a personal glossary for support.

In a Subject clearing project all notes and definitions are in a flux. They are continuously being reviewed and updated based on feedback from others and from further study.

Here is a current project listing some key concepts: Postulate Mechanics

In my case, my whole blog supports me in my subject clearing effort.

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Subject Clearing Your Schooling (old)

August 18, 2022 – 8:53 PM

Please see Course on Subject Clearing

When we are young, we receive considerable “schooling” from our parents and from the school. We never question that data because it is all new to us. We are told that data in an authoritative manner, so we are not encouraged to question it. This amounts to your understanding being suppressed or conditioned. This has unwanted consequences later.

The outpoints that you are looking at here are ALTERED PURPOSE and OMITTED UNDERSTANDING. The truth is: as you understand better, you know what to do better.

TAKE SUPPRESSION OFF FROM LEARNING

It is important to take any suppression off your understanding. The first step is to make a list of the school subjects that you had trouble with. List them in the order they come to your mind. Then you may rearrange them in the sequence you would like to take them up.

Next, carry out the Viewpoint Expansion exercise with each subject using the following question:

“On learning __(the subject)__(the button)__?”

Use the buttons in the order given on the exercise. You may even cycle through all the buttons many times. Do this until you no longer feel threatened by the subject, or feel aversion towards it. You now feel that you can comfortably confront the subject.

Do this with all the subjects that you ever had trouble with. This could go very fast. You may now feel excited about learning in general.

CLEAR UP FEELINGS OF NOT UNDERSTANDING

Now that you feel excited about learning, make a list of the school subjects which make you feel that some understanding is missing. List them in the order they come to your mind. Then you may rearrange them in the sequence you would like to tackle them.

Take the first subject, and list all the key words as they come to your mind. The key words would represent the main concepts in that subject. For example, the key words of MATHEMATICS may be listed as follows:

Mathematics, digit, number, place value, counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, integer, zero, negative numbers, terms, expressions, factoring, and so on.

As you clear the meaning of these key words, arrange them in the order from the earliest in development to the latest. This correct sequence shall provide you with the context in which you may evaluate the concepts underlying these key words. Do this until you no longer have the feeling of not understanding the subject. You may now see clearly what you understand and what you don’t.

Do this with all the subjects toward which you have the feeling of not having understood something. You will now have certainty on what you know, and what you don’t know.

ONGOING STUDY

Now that you have isolated what you know and what you don’t, you may prioritize your study, and plan your education according to your interests.

As you select textbooks and start to study them, make sure you do not go by any paragraph, sentence, or word that you do not understand the meaning of.

Use the tips provided at Word Meanings.

Good luck!

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Anomalies and Outpoints

August 17, 2022 – 11:08 AM

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

[NOTE: My acknowledgement goes to L Ron Hubbard. I have freely borrowed from his writings to build up further on them, as usually done in the field of research.]

Hubbard’s Ideal Scene for Logic does not spring from some basic principle of the Universe. It is rather heuristic as expressed in The Logic of Data Series. In Subject Clearing, The Ideal Scene for Logic is the principle of ONENESS (continuity, consistency and harmony) of reality, as explained in The Ideal Scene of LOGIC.

Thus, the OUTPOINTS are the categories of illogics determined heuristically in Data Series by Hubbard. On the other hand ANOMALIES are the basic illogics as derived from the principle of Oneness of Reality.

The anomaly of DISCONTINUITY appears to contain the outpoints of OMITTED DATA and DROPPED TIME.

The anomaly of INCONSISTENCY appears to contain the outpoints of ALTERED SEQUENCE and ALTERED IMPORTANCE.

The anomaly of DISHARMONY appears to contain the outpoints of FALSEHOOD and WRONG TARGET.

These outpoints are described as follows.

OMITTED DATA (DISCONTINUITY)

“This can be an omitted person, terminal, object, energy, space, time, form, sequence, or even an omitted scene. Anything that can be omitted that should be there is an out-point. This is easily the most overlooked out-point as it isn’t there to directly attract attention.”

“In crime it is as bad to omit as it is to commit. Yet no one seems to notice the omissions as actual crimes. In any analysis which fails to discover a WHY one can safely conclude the why is an omission and look for things that should be there and aren’t.”

DROPPED TIME (DISCONTINUITY)

“Time that should be noted and isn’t would be an out-point of “dropped time”. It is a special case of an omitted datum. Dropped time has a peculiarly ferocious effect that adds up to utter lunacy. A news bulletin from 1814 and one from 1922 read consecutively without time assigned produces otherwise undetectable madness.”

“In madmen the present is the dropped time, leaving them in the haunted past. Just telling a group of madmen to “come up to present time” will produce a few miraculous “cures”. Time aberrations are so strong that dropped time well qualifies as an out-point.”

ALTERED SEQUENCE (INCONSISTENCY)

“Sequence means linear (in a line) travel either through space or time or both. Any things, events, object, sizes, in a wrong sequence is an out-point. The number series 3, 7, 1, 2, 4, 6, 5 is an altered sequence, or an incorrect sequence. A cart-before-the-horse out of sequence is an out-point.”

“The basic outness is no sequence at all. This leads into FIXED IDEAS. It also shows up in what is called disassociation, an insanity. Things connected to or similar to each other are not seen as consecutive. Such people also jump about subjectwise without relation to an obvious sequence. Disassociation is the extreme case where things that are related are not seen to be and things that have no relation are conceived to have.”

“One has to think in sequences to have correct sequences. Persons who do not think in sequence do not see altered sequences in their own actions or areas.”

ALTERED IMPORTANCE (INCONSISTENCY)

“An importance shifted from its actual relative importance, up or down, is an out-point. A number of things of different importances can be assigned a monotone of importance. That will also be an out-point. All importances are relative to their actuality.”

FALSEHOOD (DISHARMONY)

“When you hear two facts that are contrary, one is a falsehood or both are. Propaganda and other activities specialize in falsehoods and provoke great disturbance. Willful or unintentional a falsehood is an out-point. It may be a mistake or a calculated or defensive falsehood and it is still an out-point.”

“Anything that seeks to be what it isn’t is a falsehood and an out-point. Fiction that does not pretend to be anything else is of course not a falsehood.”

WRONG TARGET (DISHARMONY)

“Mistaken objective is an out-point. An example would be “removing the slums” to make way for modem shops, which kills the tourist industry.”

“Wrong target is commonly mistaken identity. It is also mistaken purposes or goals. Injustice is usually a wrong target out-point. Arrest the drug consumer, award the drug company would be an example.”

“A large sum of aberration is based on wrong targets, wrong sources, wrong causes. Incorrectly tell a patient he has ulcers when he hasn’t and he’s hung with an out-point which impedes recovery.”

Summary

There may be types of outpoints other than those outlined above; but they all fall under the three basic anomalies of discontinuity, inconsistency and disharmony.

To gain some familiarity with these outpoints please see the examples provided in Data Series 2: Logic.

Then make some examples of your own.

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Begin Subject Clearing

August 12, 2022 – 8:20 AM

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

It is much easier to start Subject Clearing by addressing external anomalies. As external anomalies are handled, they pave the way for handling the internal anomalies.

External anomalies relate to the approximations that the mind makes of the external world. These are best resolved by getting actual experience. In the absence of actual experience logical projections may work where the gaps in awareness are small. But, where such gaps are large, even logic fails.

If one is unable to experience some portion of the external world, one may make oneself aware through the experience of others as relayed through books, lectures, videos, etc. This is basically what school and university education is supposed to accomplish. One is learning through the experience of others. But the information that is relayed, could itself become distorted after passing through many relay points.

So, the starting point is strengthening one’s ABILITY TO OBSERVE AND EXPERIENCE with eyes open.

Here are the recommended exercises for this purpose:

Click on the link to access the exercise. Do each exercise repetitively in 20 minutes sessions until you feel you have attained its purpose. It is important that you be relaxed and let the mind present data to you. You do not present any data to the mind in this observation mode. You examine the incoming sensations, information and data without avoiding, resisting, suppressing or denying them. Let the mind associate the data on its own. You simply be an observer.