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                      %RATIONALITY AND ARATIONALITY 731114

     It would seem  that humans are helpful more often  in
what  they affirm than in what  they  deny ---  especially
when what they deny is what others have affirmed.

     Modern society includes some who affirm the values of
rationality. Modern society also includes many persons who
affirm  values  other  than the values affirmed  by  those
people who affirm the values of rationality.  Let us  call
the  first group the rationalists and the second group the
arationalists.

     The   arationalists  are  inclined  to   regard   the
rationalists as estranged from reality --- insofar as they
are unresponsive to the  full range of humane experiences,
emotions, and communications.   Attention is called to the
inadequacy  of  pure rationality when it is cut  off  from
primary   humane  sensory  data  and   humane   community.
Arationalists are not likely to be precise in their verbal
articulation and may misstate their concerns.

     The   rationalists   are   inclined  to   regard  the
arationalists as unable to analyze relationships---insofar
as  they  dismiss the importance  of  disciplined analytic
procedures.

     Through   lack  of  emotional  security,   the   pure
rationalists   are   likely   to   regard   arationalists'
affirmations   as   denials   which  threaten  their   own
affirmations.

     The  undisciplined  arationalist  is  likely  to   be
suspicious    of    the   disciplined   affirmations    of
rationalists,  because  the disciplined  affirmations  are
made by persons who are often alienated from primary human
sensory data and a humane community.

     The significant improvement of science education will
be blocked until ways are found  to bridge the barriers to
understanding between  rationalists and arationalists.  It
would  be  helpful for rationalists and  arationalists  to
attend to each other's affirmations. Both need the freedom
to  see  others pointing to realities which they  are  not
familiar with.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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