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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
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When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos
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Descartes impoverished the classical idea of logos, and it no longer covered human experience [Roochnik on Descartes]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
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Reason says don't assent to uncertain principles, just as much as totally false ones [Descartes]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
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Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason [Nietzsche on Descartes]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
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All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
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1813
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All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
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1811
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Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
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1815
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Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]
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