Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Singer, Peter (1983), The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, Retrieved on 2015-05-30
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    30 MAY 2015

     Beginning to Reason

    Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.... If we do not understand what an escalator is, we might get on it intending to go a few meters, only to find that once we are on, it is difficult to avoid going all the way to the end. Similarly, once reasoning has got started it is hard to tell where it will stop. The...
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