ABSTRACT
The basic methods and tables of their application are
perhaps the simplest thing in ASIP. The application of
methods does not require that discipline of thought which
is necessary for analysis (S-Field and "in steps"), and demands no knowledge of physics. The table suggests an
automatic approach: one does not need to think, one has
taken the starting data and received an almost ready made
reply. Behind the present small table and short list of
methods the optimists see a multitude of larger tables and
long lists of methods, and hence with one hand they can be
turned over to the computer for application.
