Naive reason is too flighty

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TheVisionofEr
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Naive reason is too flighty

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Naive reason always wants sophitic truths over reasonable ones. Instead of asking what is reasonable or realistic it preposes inteligable but unrealistic, not to say insane, objections.

For instance I once heard a lawyer accuse someone of being a "materialist" because they admitted not to be able to walk through walls. The point being that walking through walls may be possible. Though, this utterly efaces what is now reasonable. From the point of view of Yoda or a mystical macjician the immidiate certainty that one can not may be disposative in producing the faliure. That point of view is not reasonable. One could say that it is reasonable to begin a reaserch project within the field of probabilistic physics to achieve the walking through walls, but then it is still not reasonable to say that one is gone wrong in saying that it is now, right here, not doable.

The naive Sophist provokes much difficulty in terms of spelling out their foolish ways, as is shown by the troublesome length of the considerations of the paragraph before this one.
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