RE: Do we expect too much from human reason?
March 3, 2015 at 7:45 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2015 at 7:52 pm by Cato.)
(March 3, 2015 at 7:08 pm)Thoughtage Wrote: Are the rule of human reason binding on all reality? Nobody knows. We don't even know what "all of reality" refers to.
So you've stated and keep repeating while evading any real attempt to come to a common understanding of what the terms you use mean precisely.
Reason is the only means we have to understand our universe, which is for all practical purposes "all of reality". Our evolved ability to think abstractly has also allowed us to overcome the limited view of things provided by direct perception. Cataloging every single event in the history of the universe or being able to precisely understand the exact mechanism of all events we can observe may be beyond our current capabilities and perhaps may never be achievable. Acknowledging mysteries does not invalidate the process by which we recognize the existence of the mysteries, particularly given its demonstrated ability of solving previous mysteries. Your entire argument is a non sequitur.
Your inability to provide an example of something impervious to reason nor a demonstration of an alternate means of understanding is telling.
(March 3, 2015 at 7:17 pm)Thoughtage Wrote: Well, one point might be that this discussion has been going on for thousands of years and is not going to be resolved in the next dozen posts. Patience please.
Is this your argument? Reason is ineffective because people are still arguing about the existence of God?