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	reason gary e. davis	February 15, 2019

‘Reason’ is, historically, a mystified notion of calculative intelligence (easily shown with a standard dictionary). The term is better understood (relative to our being interested enactors) as active intelligence. ‘Reason’ is best understood as primarily a verb, derivatively a noun. Reason is engaged intelligence. A recommendation to reason out an issue—or to be reasonable (which is a prevailing ethical standard in trial law)—expresses the primarily enactive interest of reasoning well (thus, admirably): being intelligently engaged well. “Good reason” to act shows actor confidence about authenticity of motive[s] to act. The better reason to act is the more intelligently discernible reasoning that can enframe the act or explain the stance of confident action. The etymology of ‘reason’ and anthropology of its significance is very interesting, relative to reasoning well about that genealogy (a keynote of the history of philosophy, of course). But the common uses of the term have little conceptual significance—and technical senses trope elaborately invested views about being well which have been traditionally metaphysicalist (if not economistic). next—> reason irt rationality

 

 

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