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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
623 It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience [Aristotle]
     Full Idea: It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience.
     From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1074b11)
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 8. Naturalising Reason
3125 Psychology studies the way rationality links desires and beliefs to causality [Segal]
     Full Idea: A person's desires and beliefs tend to cause what they tend to rationalise. This coordination of causality and rationalisation lies at the heart of psychology.
     From: Gabriel M.A. Segal (A Slim Book about Narrow Content [2000], 5.3)