Human Reason

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What is the difference between human reason and knowledge?

-- Erin Moss (mosserin2@hotmail.com), October 21, 2002

Answers

How about: reason is a process, knowledge is its product?

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), October 21, 2002.

We generally think of reason or reasoning as a process or a capacity, whereas knowledge refers to content. Thus, we use our reason, or reasoning process, to achieve knowledge. We do speak of "theories of knowledge" which tend to describe the processes of reasoning (and/or empirical verification) used to attain knowledge.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), October 21, 2002.

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