compartmenting the question

Glossary → C → compartmenting the question

Definitions

1. reading it word by word and phrase by phrase to see if any one word or any one phrase falls rather than the question as a whole.(HCOB 28 Sept 61)

2. using the prior reads occurring at the exact end of the minor thoughts to dig up different data not related to the whole thought.(HCOB 25 May 62)