Species, Member, Reason

The activity of an infinite entity proceeds by Necessity, because there is nothing to resist what eventuates from issuing from some initial moment.  Likewise, insofar as the activity of an infinite entity is governed by Reason, Necessity is a characteristic of that Reason.  In contrast, the outcome of the activity of a finite entity is inherently uncertain, i. e. there is no certain connection between attempt and outcome, so any thinking involved in it is fundamentally Experimental Reason.  Now, the human species is as much a finite entity as is any of its members.  Thus, the Reason of the former is as much Experimental as is that of the latter, i. e. the activity in both cases consists in attempts the outcomes of which are always uncertain.  So, contrary to some traditional concepts of the relation, there is no difference of kind between the Reason of the species and that of a member.