{"id":711,"date":"2013-10-02T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2013-10-02T13:27:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:27:52","slug":"tufte-on-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/tufte-on-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Tufte on Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At the heart of quantitative reasoning is a single question:<br \/>Compared to what?\"<br \/>\n<cite>\u2014 Edward Tufte, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/books_ei\">Envisioning Information<\/a><\/i>, p. 67<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>cf<\/i>. Bastiat's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econlib.org\/library\/Bastiat\/basEss1.html\">What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the heart of quantitative reasoning is a single question:Compared to what?\" \u2014 Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, p. 67 (cf. 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