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          <title>The Failure of Reason</title>
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<a  href="https://www.downes.ca/author/1" style="text-decoration:none;">Stephen Downes</a>, 

Apr 26, 2024</span>
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		           </div><p><p>I think that things like logic, reason, mathematics and inference are wonderful tools. As Descartes so helpfully explains four centuries ago, they helps us make clear what is inherent in the ideas and options we already have. But we cannot base a society, a democracy, on them. We cannot count our way to justice, we cannot infer our way to decency.</p>
 See also on  [<a  href="https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-failure-of-reason.html">Original Location</a>] [<a  href="https://www.downes.ca/post/69571">This Post</a>]<br/>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
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