平克认为推理能力的提升给予了我们把自身与当前经验以及个人狭隘观点分离开来的能力，并将我们的理念以一种更加抽象而普遍适用的方式勾勒出来。
Pinker argues that enhanced powers of reasoning give us the ability to detach ourselves from our immediate experience and from our personal or parochial perspective, and frame our ideas in more abstract, universal terms.