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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: LLCF who wrote (24028)6/20/2006 5:42:50 PM
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We seem close but you interpreted the first part differently than I intended it.

<<<...So "Intelligence is an awareness of reason"-

I don't understand what you mean... something has to be aware of something elses ability to reason? Or are you saying it just has to be aware of reasons for doing something?...>>>

You gave me a lot to think about so it will take more than one post.

In this context, awareness of reason is not the observer's awareness of something else's 'ability'. Awareness is the observer's attention to logical order and the observer's rational understanding of the logical nature of the observed, the observed being just 'is' logically ordered.

So reason exists both with the observer and is recognised in the observed. If you dismiss the relationship of observer and the observed, then you dismiss reason all together. The observer applies reason to the observed. The rational grounding of the observed is manifest by the awareness of the observer.

The observer cannot be aware of the logical nature of the observed unless the observer is endowed with reason. So the reasoned observation becomes intelligible.

I know I'm being redundant but this is a key to the original statement. So we may want to look at it from several perspectives.

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I will attempt an analogy in the next post.

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BTW, this guy I linked uses "adaptably variable behaviour within the lifetime of the individual

Adaptiveness commonly recognized as a measure of intelligence. Many Psychologists use it as a variable in determining human IQ.
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