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The book you have just opened is probably unlike anything you have ever read so far. It offers you a path to direct contact with "The Art of War", the masterpiece of Sun Tzu, a classical theorist of warfare in Ancient China. This book examines an ancient Chinese work on strategy and warfare: Sun Tzu, "The Art of War", from the perspectives of logic, mathematics, and computer science. Sun Tzu's book has been studied and translated many times before, with viewpoints from historians, military- and business strategists, philosophers, and in the context of modern computer strategy games. This book takes a new approach to study this 2500-year-old text. It uses modern mind mapping techniques to show a new dimension that uncovers meaning and structure not easily seen before. Mind maps are semantic diagrams of related concepts: they are used in this book in a restricted form, defined as Text Tree Mind Maps. A chapter covering the theoretical side of diagramming ancient text, explains the making of the mind maps used in this book and why showing old text in this way is so useful

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Part I The Logic of Sun Tzu -- Introduction -- Contents of the Book -- Audience -- Logic and Mind Maps -- The Mind Map Method -- Patterns -- Other Topics -- Sun Tzu and the Art of War -- Introducing Sun Tzu and The Art of War -- On Sun Tzu -- On the Art of War -- Other Historical Books about War -- Books on Strategy Theory in Ancient China -- Books on Strategy Theory Outside China -- Diagramming Ancient Text -- Logic and Diagramming -- Diagramming Methods -- Classification Diagrams -- Linguistic Text Analysis -- Tools that Show Structure -- Programming Language IDE's -- Reed-Kellogg Diagrams -- Requirements for Text Diagramming -- Text Trees and Mind Maps -- Definition of a Text Tree Mind Map -- Advantages of Using a Text Tree Mind Map (TTMM) -- The Work of Fu Chao -- The Making of a Mind Map -- Creating a Mind Map from Text -- An Example from AoW Chapter I -- Procedure for Making a Mind Map -- Finding Interesting Text -- Famous Quotes -- Finding the Quote in Chapter V -- Mind Mapping Software -- Mind Maps on Paper -- Mind Mapping Results -- The Mind Maps in Part 2 of this Book -- Logic -- Definitions of Logic -- Logic and Geography -- Logic in China -- Contradictions -- Yin-Yang -- Contradictions and the Belief System of the Reader -- Inconsistent Information -- Logic and Patterns -- Patterns -- What is a Pattern? -- Enumerations -- Pairs of Opposites -- Paradoxes and the Yin-Yang principle -- Metaphors -- Definitions -- Preference Order -- Conditional Sentences -- Conditional Sentences -- Four Categories of Clauses -- Codes for Conditional Sentences -- Examples of Conditional Sentences -- Argumentative Structures -- Non Argumentative Examples -- An Argumentative Example -- What Makes a Structure Argumentative? -- Conclusion -- The Linguistic Perspective.