The Schopenhauer's sessions - His definition of reason, our definition
July 21st 2009 11:12
Following item 3 of the first chapter of the book:
"The capacity of creating abstract notions (...) is what we have allways called reason."
For Schopenhauer reason is the capacity of imagine facts in our minds. The way I see (in a more mathmatical way..) is more like this. Reason is the capacity of operating the vectors interpreted. These operations can include any combintation, product, and so on.
When we calculate the product between to facts, everything we'ree doing is calculate how analoge they are. If they are completely ortogonal (one times the other equals zero) it means that these facts, when using this base, are ortogonal. Please remark that changing the base changes the result, example:
Imagine a piramid with a square base. If you compare the pyramid looking from the top to a triangle and to a square, the bigger product will be the one with the triangle (they are more similar). On the other hand, if you loog to the pyramid from the bottom and compare it again with the triangle and the square, the bigger product will be with the square.
The creation of abstract facts is a subset of the capacity of dealing with them (it means do any kind of operation).
Another thing that is forgoten in this is memory: without it we would have any set of facts to be able to deal with. It means that memory and reasoning are both important. You can overcome problems of reason by having a good memory and vice versa, but if you don't have one of the 2, you're dead..
Still, one last thing forgotten: senses.If we didn't have senses we wouldn't be able to get any facts from real.
So we got the conclusion that there are 3 things a priori in men: reason, memory and senses:
- senses are the capacity of interpreting facts from real.
- memory is the capacity of storage of facts interpreted.
- reason is the capacity of doing operations with facts.
hope i'm clear enough...
cheers.
"The capacity of creating abstract notions (...) is what we have allways called reason."
For Schopenhauer reason is the capacity of imagine facts in our minds. The way I see (in a more mathmatical way..) is more like this. Reason is the capacity of operating the vectors interpreted. These operations can include any combintation, product, and so on.
When we calculate the product between to facts, everything we'ree doing is calculate how analoge they are. If they are completely ortogonal (one times the other equals zero) it means that these facts, when using this base, are ortogonal. Please remark that changing the base changes the result, example:
Imagine a piramid with a square base. If you compare the pyramid looking from the top to a triangle and to a square, the bigger product will be the one with the triangle (they are more similar). On the other hand, if you loog to the pyramid from the bottom and compare it again with the triangle and the square, the bigger product will be with the square.
The creation of abstract facts is a subset of the capacity of dealing with them (it means do any kind of operation).
Another thing that is forgoten in this is memory: without it we would have any set of facts to be able to deal with. It means that memory and reasoning are both important. You can overcome problems of reason by having a good memory and vice versa, but if you don't have one of the 2, you're dead..
Still, one last thing forgotten: senses.If we didn't have senses we wouldn't be able to get any facts from real.
So we got the conclusion that there are 3 things a priori in men: reason, memory and senses:
- senses are the capacity of interpreting facts from real.
- memory is the capacity of storage of facts interpreted.
- reason is the capacity of doing operations with facts.
hope i'm clear enough...
cheers.
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