This section is more of a return to the beginning of the book with goals, questions, etc. Before getting to the steps in Synoptical Reading, Adler needs to, again, ramble on for a couple pages about how THE SAME WORD CAN HAVE MULTPLE MEANINGS!
As far as the steps go, they're very similar to the ones in the other sections, slightly adjusted or reordred:
1. Find Relevant Passages (NOT RELEVANT BOOKS!)
2. Bring author to terms (WORDS MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS!)
3. Get questions clear
4. Define issues
5. Analyze the discussion
Some discussion of bias, a sales pitch for the Synopticon (it's not a terrible idea, but it's the kind of thing that'd need to be updated regularly, like an encyclopedia, and it only made it through 2 editions in 40 years).
Then, back to WORDS MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS. Again...
I know I took a month off, but after the super specific sections previously, this really feels like he should've put it with earlier, it seems to fit more there.
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