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The Difference Between Reason and Logic
The capacity to reason is, in fact, different than just simply being logical about things. We have a degree of confidence or credence in a belief, say from e to zero on a scale from zero to one - but it's never one or zero, true or false. In many cases, there isn't just one fact that is completely, just positive, completely certain,. That just a settles the issue once and for all. Often you've got to weigh a lot of evidence. This kind of probablistic reasoning is what we think of as intuition.