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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
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)
For clear questions posed by reason, reason can also find clear answers [Gödel]
     Full Idea: I uphold the belief that for clear questions posed by reason, reason can also find clear answers.
     From: Kurt Gödel (works [1930]), quoted by Peter Koellner - On the Question of Absolute Undecidability 1.5
     A reaction: [written in 1961] This contradicts the implication normally taken from his much earlier Incompleteness Theorems.