Is It Even Possible to Reason in That Pure Way?

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No, and it's very much in line. I take it with Jonathan Heid and the Alan Fisk views where reason as a tool of persuasion is not going to work for people. That's not how it's not even a work for us really. It's just for whatever reason we're taught to think that that's how people are persuaded and people make decisions. But that's just, I really do think that he doesn't think it's like that at all.

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