Well Platt, Ant's continuance of this thread caused some further reflection on my part, and I realized there is an ambiguity in the simple phrase: "I can't tell the difference." that reveals a lot about your ideas of "reason".
literally it means "I can't speak the difference" but we use it to imply that "I can't discern the difference." If you contrast Reason with intution, then I agree that reason is incomplete. But let's give a nod to Grandfather Kant, and put that mentation in its own category - Pure Reason - and admit that as a practical matter our reason is the interpretative capacity to weigh our emotional reactions, our aesthetic sense, our educated knowledge and come up with a conclusion and a way of communicating it to our listener (another interpretation). And in this sense, we don't need anything but Reason, Sweet Reason, to do the whole job. John, being reasonable Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
