Re: Confidence in reason
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Quote: Is a person capable of having confidence in reason when that person is almost completely ignorant of the nature of reasoning?
Yes. Just because people are ignorant of the nature of reasoning doesn't mean they don't reason. Its just that they arrive at their reason by a different route. For example, commonsense is a form of reason but its experiential or arrived at through a gestalt type process.
The hilarious thing is that in certain situations you will frequently see more down to earth or less educated people saying about the more intellectual educated person that "he's intelligent but he ain't go no commonsense." This could have quite a lot of importance in say a life or death situation.
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Coberst. Confidence in reason is inversely related to ability.
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