Thursday, August 9, 2012

Experimental Reason and Universal Reason

Now, while Copernicus' hypotheses are well-recognized as transforming human knowledge, and, consequently, human culture, they are never conceived as transforming the objects of that knowledge, e. g. Heliocentrism is regarded as a discovery of what presumably already exists, not an alteration of it.  Hence, in general, on that presumption, Experimental Reason is never more than a contingent human event, and, hence, is not to be confused with the Reason that governs universal existence, often attributed to a deity.  Still, those moments that transform the human world are events in the history of universal existence, so, hence, must be governed by any such universal Reason.  So, either pivotal moments of human Wonder are governed by the laws of the latter, or else human Reason is the only species of  Rationality.

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