The elementary core of Reason - from Logical and Cognitive perspectives -

 

The elementary core of Reason - from Logical and Cognitive perspectives -

Consider this - John gave Jack a gift. Gifts make Jack happy. So John gave Jack something which made Jack happy.

Lets simplify. John gave Jack a gift. ‘A gift’ makes Jack happy. So, John gave Jack something which made Jack happy.

A gift makes Jack happy. And John gave Jack a gift. How does that imply that John gave Jack something that made him happy? Because, a gift is a gift. Why? When a word is assigned to some piece of reality, any other instance of reality satisfying the criteria of assigning that word to the original reality, will be allowed to be assigned that word. Conversely, that word can refer to that other instance of reality. That is the functional definition of a word.

Cognitively speaking, it is a primary, in-born (the latter is a claim here) instinct “to take note of” something that the mind encounters in reality, which is already in memory (which has been encountered before). A subtle definitive extension of “taking note of” would be “involuntarily applying whatever one knows about the previously encountered entity to the newly, repeatedly encountered one”. That might be the most basic (intelligent) use of what we call ‘memory’.