Lesson 6 | Identifying the Main Point

Keep the main point the main point.

You can do this by arcing a passage carefully on each level.

What we learned this lesson

1. Don't memorize how the main point works for each of the 18 logical relationships! Instead, think so you can understand which part is supporting the other.
2. It is important to understand how the main point of a relationship works as you bring it out to the next level.
3. The basic principle for making connections beyond the first level is to relate the main point of each piece. And yet often times the supporting propositions will need to partially come into play as well.
4. Sometimes the choice of relationship on a first-level arc is determined by what must be the main point for it to work with the second-level arc (e.g. with "but").