That's not true tho. Not even someone with a reductive, Humean account or reason would accept that. Reason can work out consequences of hypotheses without affirming them.
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seems implicit he meant insofar as reason is used to make any truth claims.
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It would have to be some special kind of truth claim; again, the logical analysis of an argument does require you to assume the premises, and you can often refute a premise or a set of premises without ever assuming that a particular argument is sound
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My claim is that even practically using any reasoning at all requires implicit faith in the existence and faithfulness of nature and reason.
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This does not mean we use speculative reasoning before we reason, but practical reason intuitively takes certain truths for granted.
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