1. illogic occurs when one or more
data is misplaced into the
wrong body of
data for it. An
example would be "
Los Angeles smog is growing worse so we fined
New York." "I am sorry, madam, but you cannot travel first
class on a third
class passport." Humanoid response to such displacements is to be
reasonable. A new
false datum is dreamed up and put into the
body of
data to explain why that
datum is included. (Reasonableness is often inserted as explanation of other out-
points also.) In the smog one, it could be dreamed up that
New York's
exports or imports were causing L.A. smog. In the train one, it could be inserted that in that country, passports were used instead of tickets.
(HCO PL 23 June 70) 2. faulty explanations.
(HCO PL 30 Aug 70) 3. a
staff member or
executive can be "
reasonable" and accept reasons why something cannot be done, accept incomplete cycles as
complete, and fail to follow through and get completions. All of which
results in further
traffic.
(BPL 30 Jan 69) 4. an
objective can always be achieved. Most usually, when it is not being achieved, the person is finding
counter -
intention in the
environment which coincides with his own (this is reasonableness), and his
attention becomes directed to his own counterintention rather than to his
objective, i.e. he has
interiorized into the
situation.
(FO 2116) 5. you can safely say that being
reasonable is a symptom of being unable to recognize out-
points for what they are and
use them to discover
actual situations.
(HCO PL 30 Sept 73 II)