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mode of reasoning

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See: dialectic


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Conversely, this second reading insists that, regardless of how one assesses humanity's post-Edenic knowledge, it represents an advance over Edenic epistemology in that possession of rationality independent of subservience to instinct (including having one's decision-making capacities indistinguishable from obeisance to external divine commands) is the only mode of reasoning appropriate to fully realized human nature.
The mode of reasoning that Judge Bork adopted in Ollman can thus quite legitimately lead to Justice O'Connor's position in the Michigan cases.
If there appears to be one, we need to question, not faith or reason per se, but rather our premises or our mode of reasoning.
 
 
 
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