is forgotten within 14 days by students (let us call this strategy “Wagenschein’s
razor”).
To reach a “dΔ” value as needed, one much higher than available in the situation,
we have to reduce the Gestalts to their simplest form in a way Ahlfors suggested
(Fig. 01): reduce the Gestalts to the great lines, avoid the thousand errors of detail
in history, ignore the logical sequence of B preceding A in history (the type of
error George Sarton made following the historical line carefully while neglecting
to reduce the Gestalts to their simplest forms, see Siemsen 2011). One has to be
careful while restructuring the contents this way: listen to the proximate empirical
answer of experiments to find the simplest elementary forms. Do not trust the
“gut feeling”, i.e. your intuition without further research.
I want to thank the members of the team, Dirk Rabe, Joachim Wiebe, Walter
Schumacher, Luz Ezcurra and Hayo Siemsen for discussion of the exponential
genetic learning model, Lisa Martin-Hansen for a hint and Hayo Siemsen especially
for his hints to Binet and Vaney.