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Subject: Re: Re: Reason gets misunderstood everyw
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 09:26:00 EST
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[Laura Creighton  l5!laura@lll-crg.arpa]
>So I value reason as a tool, but I value reason as myself as well.  I value
>compassion and creativity the same way -- I am not saying that I am nothing
>but my ability to reason.  I cannot make a strogn distinction between my
>ability to reason and me, however.

An excellent formulation, long overdue - and Frank deserves credit
for prompting it. It is equally important to draw proper distinctions
(so as not to argue over words) - and to *refuse* to draw distinctions
that only cut a live whole into dead parts. 

You yourself make one such false distinction, however, and that is
between *reason* and *creativity*. I am firmly convinced that the
two cannot be separated.

This is why *reason is not predictable* (stupidity is).
And a sad corollary to that is that rational people can disagree.
However, through a process involving a lot of creativity, they
can converge again.

		Jan Wasilewsky