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The baby's gone out with the bathwater! The idea of instilling a concept
involves getting the student to relate something he doesn't know about
to something he does. You have utterly abandoned this goal when you take
the concept with which he is familiar, disorder, and relate it to yet
another definition. You presented him with a tautology, not an analogy!
I have a very clear idea of what disorder is. Related to a pack of cards
I can tell you that a new pack is rarely as disordered straight out of
the box as it is after it has been shuffled. I shall demonstrate* that
the entropy of the pack of cards has nothing whatever to do with its
entropy, and that should thorougly discredit the analogy.