Speaking about beauty of thinking, we assume that we know what means "to be beautiful". Ideas of beauty are extremely various, there is even a special discipline the "aesthetics" studying that such "fine" in all its completeness. Therefore there is no general answer as it – "it is beautiful to think". We can only use some one, most, from our point of view, beautiful option of an explanation. For example, a formulation which is attributed to one of founders of pragmatism and semiotics, the American philosopher Ch.S. Pearce: "It is beautiful = economically + effectively + unexpectedly".
Instruction
1. "It is economical to think" – means, to think clearly, simply (but without simplifying) and more exhaustively. Thinking, in terms of pragmatism, is a tool kit for the solution of any task. It is economical to think – means to use only that also enough in this case is necessary. No more than that. Remember Sherlock Holmes. The sensible person, he says, will take only tools which will be necessary for it for work, but they will be a set, and it will spread out everything in a perfect order. How to learn to think economically? There is very simple technique of a training: any task which faces you mentally breaks into a chain of consecutive, small and simple tasks, till the moment when you find out that the smallest task is not divided into smaller any more. Then each elementary step (small task) should be considered as a separate task which solution will be a condition for the decision following. For each small task it is necessary to find one, simplest solution, and further to solve a big problem as a chain of small tasks.
2. Economical thinking uses a minimum of means, each of which is most necessary therefore economic thinking is almost always effective. "It is effective to think" – means to receive that decision which is necessary in each case. To precisely formulate a task. To give the answer to the question posed. To gain the maximum art effect, using a minimum of means. To check as far as the decision is effective, too it is quite simple. Having solved a big task as a chain of small, it is necessary to ask itself a question: what decision from a chain of small tasks was key for the solution of a big task? That is, without answer to what small question we could not receive the general result? Then to return to initial statement of question: very often it becomes clear that the initial formulation assumes the solution of a set of small "collateral" and optional tasks without which solution in principle it would be possible to do.
3. The effective economy of thinking is almost always unexpected, as a rule, brevity of a way to the answer; it surprises, puzzles with not evidence, paradoxicality of the decision. "Unexpectedness" of thinking is very often shown in refusal of standard and traditional decisions in favor of new.