One of Heinlein’s faults that he shared with certain individuals here is that he liked to treat all his conclusions as though they were as rigorously demonstrated—and easy to verify—as his mathematical arguments.
It’s mostly a weakness in his earlier work—see Starship Troopers—and he had loosened up enough to acknowledge informalistic reasoning in later books.
I suspect we’d find the transition took place, as so many of his others did, in the middle of Stranger in a Strange Land.
One of Heinlein’s faults that he shared with certain individuals here is that he liked to treat all his conclusions as though they were as rigorously demonstrated—and easy to verify—as his mathematical arguments.
It’s mostly a weakness in his earlier work—see Starship Troopers—and he had loosened up enough to acknowledge informalistic reasoning in later books.
I suspect we’d find the transition took place, as so many of his others did, in the middle of Stranger in a Strange Land.