The point is that your personal thoughts and experiences leading up to the useful ideas actually detract from your presentation of the ideas. If we think this in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, your idea is signal and your personal experience is noise.
For example, appeals courts spend the minimum time possible on the facts before setting out and applying the law. Facts required to give context to the legal discussion are the only facts mentioned.
In short, consider what you would write if you were totally prohibited from mentioning your personal experiences at all. Sticking as close to that as possible will improve your presentation.
The point is that your personal thoughts and experiences leading up to the useful ideas actually detract from your presentation of the ideas.
Yes, I agree that can happen. But, per the the topic of this post, there are cases where personal thoughts and experiences are very relevant, namely when the topic under discussion is personal thought and experience. If one is attempting to get inside the head of another, information about the content of that head is quite topical. We would lose something if were to model every form of human expression off of the appeals courts.
The point is that your personal thoughts and experiences leading up to the useful ideas actually detract from your presentation of the ideas. If we think this in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, your idea is signal and your personal experience is noise.
For example, appeals courts spend the minimum time possible on the facts before setting out and applying the law. Facts required to give context to the legal discussion are the only facts mentioned.
In short, consider what you would write if you were totally prohibited from mentioning your personal experiences at all. Sticking as close to that as possible will improve your presentation.
Yes, I agree that can happen. But, per the the topic of this post, there are cases where personal thoughts and experiences are very relevant, namely when the topic under discussion is personal thought and experience. If one is attempting to get inside the head of another, information about the content of that head is quite topical. We would lose something if were to model every form of human expression off of the appeals courts.