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psychological novelists, from that possessed of the greatest
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philosophers and scientists. "What are we to call this capacity?"
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Berlin continues.
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He writes, again, as follows. "Practical reason,
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perhaps is a sense of what will work and what will not.
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It is a capacity for synthesis rather than analysis,
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for knowledge in the sense in which trainers know their animals or
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parents their children or conductors their orchestras,
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as opposed to that in which chemists know the contents of their test
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tubes or mathematicians know the rules their symbols obey.
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Those who lack this quality of practical wisdom,
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whatever other qualities they may possess,