As it is said in chapter 3, reason is something that is given to all human beings. We all have born with it, but not everyone is smart enought to use it in a total way. In nowadys, all the technology that surrounds us has make us kind of lazy to think and make use of reason. For example using a calculator; obviously there are operations that are almost impossible for humans to answer, but most that are answerable my thinking, just because they are long to solve we use the calculator instead of reason and logic. Reason is something we have to practice every single day so we can improve it. Of course there are some things were using a lot of reason isn't helpful, there are many questions about what surrounds us without an answer that logic and reason won't make us understand. What if all of the teories about universe are wrong and out there in the space there is and end and something more is out there? For example what is told about the universe that is infinite, we can't imagine it nor understanding even making sense of reason. We will never completely understand what the word infinite means because we don't know infinite.
I like that you bring up 'infinite' and how we can't reason with something we can't grasp. It's a really good point, and as Savater says in the next chapter, sometimes philosophy is just trying untangle what words mean. You did a good job of making an example of this in your post about 'infinite', nice work!
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