Characteristics of the problem

   

One must be an inventor to read well.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chapter 1 presented an overview of the claims being put forth by this research; in part, the claim hierarchy will answer the question of how a reasoner performs the cognitive act of reading. However, to develop the theory, it is necessary to fully understand the problem of reading, for how one understands the problem will constrain potential solutions. First, some basic definitions need to be presented in order to ground the rest of this presentation.