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In principle, therefore, logic assumes a purely ancillary role in regard to the ethics of active conduct and the aesthetics of affective values. On balance, however, logic can achieve heights of abstraction, points of perspective, and summits of reflection that are otherwise unavailable to a mind embroiled in the tangle of its continuing actions and immersed in the flow of its current passions. By rising above this plain immersion in the dementias swept out by action and passion, logic can acquire the status of a handle, something an agent can use in its situation to avoid being swept along with the tide of affairs, something that keeps it from being swept up with all that the times press on it to sweep out of mind. By means of this instrument, logic affords the mind an ability to survey the passing scene in ways that it cannot hope to imagine while engaged in the engrossing business of keeping its gnosis to the grindstone, and so it becomes apt to adopt the attitude that it needs in order to become capable of reflecting on its very own actions, affects, and axioms.
In principle, therefore, logic assumes a purely ancillary role in regard to the ethics of active conduct and the aesthetics of affective values. On balance, however, logic can achieve heights of abstraction, points of perspective, and summits of reflection that are otherwise unavailable to a mind embroiled in the tangle of its continuing actions and immersed in the flow of its current passions. By rising above this plain immersion in the dementias swept out by action and passion, logic can acquire the status of a handle, something an agent can use in its situation to avoid being swept along with the tide of affairs, something that keeps it from being swept up with all that the times press on it to sweep out of mind. By means of this instrument, logic affords the mind an ability to survey the passing scene in ways that it cannot hope to imagine while engaged in the engrossing business of keeping its gnosis to the grindstone, and so it becomes apt to adopt the attitude that it needs in order to become capable of reflecting on its very own actions, affects, and axioms.
====5.2.11. Reflective Interpretive Frameworks====
=====5.2.11.1. Principals vs. Principals=====
=====5.2.11.2. The Initial Description of Inquiry=====
=====5.2.11.3. An Early Description of Interpretation=====
=====5.2.11.4. Descriptions of the Mind=====
=====5.2.11.5. Of Signs and the Mind=====
=====5.2.11.6. Questions of Justification=====
=====5.2.11.7. The Experience of Satisfaction=====
=====5.2.11.8. An Organizational Difficulty=====
=====5.2.11.9. Pragmatic Certainties=====
=====5.2.11.10. Problems and Methods=====
===5.3. Reflection on Reflection===
===5.3. Reflection on Reflection===