> Much of the meaning of text is hidden between the lines: without understanding why statements appear in a document, a reader has only a shallow understanding.
This seems not true when I and most people I know read things. I would argue that we almost always have a world model and know some reasons why these statements are appearing in a book. If I was reading Fluid Dynamics textbook, I may not understand the math, but I know why those statements appear; They are mathematical statements to help you learn the theory or whatever and they follow a pattern to teach you important concepts. Like for instance concepts will build upon older ones Bernoulli's equation is there because law of conservation of energy was there before it, so its there because it assumes I understand the latter..
This seems not true when I and most people I know read things. I would argue that we almost always have a world model and know some reasons why these statements are appearing in a book. If I was reading Fluid Dynamics textbook, I may not understand the math, but I know why those statements appear; They are mathematical statements to help you learn the theory or whatever and they follow a pattern to teach you important concepts. Like for instance concepts will build upon older ones Bernoulli's equation is there because law of conservation of energy was there before it, so its there because it assumes I understand the latter..