Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works.
Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .
There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.
It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
You have to put together bits and pieces of information before you can draw overall conclusions.
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.
