Tag: reason
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Is Reason a Servant or a Master?
More recently than I care to admit, I have begun to wonder if knowledge –reason– merely exists to augment our judgement, or to achieve some goal or other. Is knowledge on its own somehow just a means to an end? Something inherently subordinate to results? What is knowledge for? In other words, ‘Is reason essentially…
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Hang our banners on the outward walls
Ever since I was a small child, I have had an aversion to arguments; I have recognized that my opinions can never be imposed by strength. Only by means of vocabularic confusion could I ever hope to win a dispute -and even then, only by quickly withdrawing from the arena of combat. Of course one…
