Binaries Addendum

It has come to my attention that my Binaries post is a bit confusing, so i thought i’d make an addendum to clarify some stuff.

First of all i wanna make sure we all understand that the tools i provide in that specific post are not supposed to, on their own, lead you to a massive, multilayered deduction. They’re supposed to be tools used when trying to make progress in specific parts and stages of a larger deduction, in order to narrow down information and possible conclusions, or reach the next steps in your deduction easily. They’re meant to be employed on a case by case basis, and whenever you feel you require them in your deductive process.

Trying to make an entire, big deduction using simply the concept of binaries, while i guess techincally possible, is not a productive use of time and mental capacity, it’s a slow and clunky process meant for processing small chunks of information because sometimes it’s easier to answer overly specific questions, than to look at everything that could potentially be a question, and trying to apply it to more than that is probably not feasable.

The tools i give you in that post go against some of the advice you’re gonna recieve as a deductionist, even from me. Most advice you’ll recieve boils down to: You have to observe everything and make sure to stay free of any opinions, assumptions, or anything that could damage your objectivity, you’re meant to observe first, and then derive information from those observations, not come into the deduction with prestablished notions and questions to be answered, and this is for the most part correct. The reason these tools are useful and fine to use in the right scenarios is because they allow for the simplification of the information gathering process, they’re small shortcuts in the big roadtrip that is building a big deduction.

And now time for an analogy, because i use those a lot and this one seemed to be helpful to some people: Think about it like having a bunch of puzzle pieces scattered in a table, all belonging to 5 different sets of puzzles, but no pictures of what each set will look like when done. Yes, you should go one by one arranging them and building them carefully and methodically, and if you’re careful and smart about it you will manage. But if i come to you and tell you that i can give you a brief look at what one of the puzzles looks like, you’ll be happy to take that opportunity to separate the pieces you can find in that brief time, and organize them quickly and easily. Finding a moment when you can accurately get a binary question to extract information from, is like getting to look at the final picture, and separate some puzzle pieces

Hope that clears up potential questions. If you have anything else you wanna ask just hit me up

Happy Observing!

-DV