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Simply another twisting of a definition used to get people to give up thinking for themselves...
Hmm, I would tend to agree although I do see how this procress/distinction can have some value. I believe the difference in ways of thinking is even discussed in mental health philosophy/psycology and I have heard it suggested that diseases such as schizophrenia can result from an overuse of the 'reasoning' 'rational' way of thinking and a neglect of the 'intuitive', 'impulse' way of thinking.
[Please forgive the above for being a gross simplification and summary of an idea that I may not have fully understood.]
I can see how what landmark calls 'decisions' can create negative consequences. I often 'talk myself out of' doing things I know I should do (such as going for a jog) and 'talk myself into' doing things I know I shouldn't do (such as eating a big cream cake) when I use logic and reason to decide what to do (because its easy to invent reasons not to go jogging, for example).
I would guess that the important point which Landmark misses is that it is probably a balance that we should seek - that we shouldn't rely wholly in reasoning and logical analysis when we make decisions but nor should we forsake logic and rational thought and make all decisions impulsively or instinctively.
What do you guys think, any sense in that?