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What does it mean?
All our reasoning reduces to yielding to feeling.
In plain terms
Reason ends up following emotions.
What can you take from it?
Acknowledge the role of feeling in thought.

Where it applies

  • decision making
  • moral judgment

Putting it to work

  • balance logic and feeling
  • reflect on emotional bias

Questions to consider

  • When does feeling improve reasoning?
  • Can we separate reason from emotion?

Another view

Some reasoning can be purely logical, independent of feeling.

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