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.. _proposition.317:

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Extracting Net Value of Text
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.. highlights:: Opportunity

   Having a method for evaluating a text by what it
   actually explains provides an opportunity to tell which
   terms the reader is expected to know and, therefore,
   which terms the author need not explain. The method also
   enables extracting the net value of a text, the knowledge
   that the text claims to provide, in a form that suits the
   purpose of extraction.

Context
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1. While evaluating a text, I can tell which terms the
   reader is expected to know, without having to know who
   the readers are.
2. While writing a text, I can leave unexplained the terms
   the reader is expected to know, without having to repeat
   what the reader already knows just to be on the same
   page.
3. While extracting valuable information from a text, I can
   give it the form that suits my purpose, without having to
   keep the wording or structure of the original text.


Assumptions
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1. A text must be analyzable as a catalog of interrelated
   terms, so that the method can tell which terms the text
   defines and which terms the reader is expected to know.
2. The author must define every term the text provides, not
   describe it, since only a definition relates a term to
   other terms.
3. Only terms can be detected.

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:version: 1.0
:revision: 2026-10-02
:written.by:   |author|
:assisted.by: Anthropic Claude, Opus 5.5

.. include:: ./variables/common.txt
.. include:: ./variables/names.txt