I am not sure we are using clear definitions here. But it seems that we are pointing at the difference between reasoning with data, using the rules of logic, and the kind of reasoning that is used by raw awareness in immediate appreception and permeation of situations. They are very different. I believe Dewey is using the term "reason" to describe that raw untamed country where reason flies free of data and reaches for pure know.

The beauty of that country is that it does not depend on agreemernt for validity; it is the land where the individual soul is sovereign.

It produces problems or art, depending on how it is used, when it is employed in society. Occasionally it produces stellar insight.

Policy, diplomacy, technology, logic and co-work all require the discipline of agreement. That's a different kind of information altogether.

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