He ask the readers to consider encountering a computer for the first time and investigating the unknown object just by thorough analysis of its parts. The literally tool is skillfully utilized here not only to emphasize the absurdity of such an approach in general but also to draw the readers in by appealing to their imagination. By addressing the audience directly for instance while suggesting "one thing you could do..." or "suppose you finished the job" he means to establish a potential for a later animated conversation. This is to say he goes on to make subtle yet efficient use of rhetorical questioning to persuade his audience that knowing about every nut and bolt in a complex machine is of no use whatsoever as far as its function is concerned. Moreover, asking "Would you know what the thing is before you? Or how it works?" he challenges the reader very directly to imagine finding themselves in such a situation and this will surely spur some kind of
He ask the readers to consider encountering a computer for the first time and investigating the unknown object just by thorough analysis of its parts. The literally tool is skillfully utilized here not only to emphasize the absurdity of such an approach in general but also to draw the readers in by appealing to their imagination. By addressing the audience directly for instance while suggesting "one thing you could do..." or "suppose you finished the job" he means to establish a potential for a later animated conversation. This is to say he goes on to make subtle yet efficient use of rhetorical questioning to persuade his audience that knowing about every nut and bolt in a complex machine is of no use whatsoever as far as its function is concerned. Moreover, asking "Would you know what the thing is before you? Or how it works?" he challenges the reader very directly to imagine finding themselves in such a situation and this will surely spur some kind of