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Related: About this forumWe Have Reason!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason
Reason (exclamation points are optional)
Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, applying logic, establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, language, mathematics, and art and is normally considered to be a definitive characteristic of human nature. Reason, or an aspect of it, is sometimes referred to as rationality.
Reasoning is associated with thinking, cognition, and intellect. Reasoning may be subdivided into forms of logical reasoning (forms associated with the strict sense): deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, abductive reasoning; and other modes of reasoning considered more informal, such as intuitive reasoning and verbal reasoning. Along these lines, a distinction is often drawn between discursive reason, reason proper, and intuitive reason, in which the reasoning processhowever validtends toward the personal and the opaque. Although in many social and political settings logical and intuitive modes of reason may clash, in others contexts, intuition and formal reason are seen as complementary, rather than adversarial as, for example, in mathematics, where intuition is often a necessary building block in the creative process of achieving the hardest form of reason, a formal proof.
Just sayin'
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We Have Reason!! (Original Post)
NeoGreen
Apr 2017
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But, but...holy book, blessed crackers, magic underwear, gongs and incense...
Binkie The Clown
Apr 2017
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Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)1. But, but...holy book, blessed crackers, magic underwear, gongs and incense...
... Who needs reason when you have blind faith and ritual?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)2. There you go...
being reasonable again
Iggo
(48,294 posts)3. LOL...nice.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)4. Nicely done!
NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)5. Yep...
...thanks for noticing...let them have their Pillsbury dough boy...
We have something that will endure.
Plus, the "rising" myth is pretty lame, i.e. creating zombies with a 3-day lag?
What's worth celebrating about that?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)6. I only just got it... d'oh...nt