Subject: Re: Reasoning
Excordis@aol.com
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 23:46:26 EST
In a message dated 7/1/00 4:17:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
AntiUtopia@aol.com writes:
> Well, yeah, I agree, Ed. The ability to "reason" is innate. Part of our
> discussion here is defining our terms. There's "reasoning" as a thing
that
> we thinking animals are born able to do. Then there's the "doing" of it
--
> and the "doing" of it is socially constructed. And then, beyond that, is
> the
> discipline of formal logic. That is also socially constructed, but the
> people who originally did the "constructing" (Aristotle actually invented
> the
> discipline) felt that they were making a "discovery" more than "building
> something" (creating an artifice, something artificial).
>
> But either way we have to account for what it is and where it comes from.
> And why we think it's so darn good :)
>
> Jim
>
We use reason to construct all of these arguments, but I don't see how
reason is logical, and so we can't prove anything.
Tory
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