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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

224	When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]
	Full Idea: Doubtful questions should not be discussed in terms of visible objects or in relation to them, but only with reference to ideas conceived by the intellect.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 135e)

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)