Hey John, if this is boring you, I understand, major thread drift. Otherwise, I still have a question or two.

>The fact that you say above that an answer cannot exist without reasoning, you must come to the conclusion that reasoning is more important.

Why? Thats what I'm asking. How do you measure importance? I'm very interested at this point.

Whats more important to a human being, oxygen or water? You can't have water without oxygen, so by your logic, oxygen would be. But I'd have to say that there is no reason to assume they are not equally important to the creatures that them.

>The fact that you may not be able to arrive at an answer does not necessarily undermine the credibility of your analysis and reasoning. It may very well be that your analysis is incomplete. Sometimes, the achievment rests with understanding the problem. Often, I have had a conclusion in mind, one that I was ready to go with, only to come to an opposite conclusion once I analyzed the problem in further detail.

This is all true, but I don't see how this relates to determing the importance of one or the other in problem solving.