1978年，在经典著作《论人性》一书中，威尔逊将人类的理智描述为用于生存和繁衍的工具，和其他各式各样的生存技艺一样，其存在必然有它的合理性。

In his 1978 classic on human Nature, Wilson describes the human mind as a device for survival and reproduction, with reason as just one of its various techniques.

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如果建筑师和医生更愿意尊重其所从事技艺的理性(原则)，而不是他自身的理性，这一点不奇怪，对他和对诸神而言，两者哪一个更普遍？

Is it not strange if the architect and the physician shall have more respect to the reason (the principles) of their own arts than man to his own reason, which is common to him and the gods?

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