You argument reminds me of a thought experiment I did concerning the “GOD Operator...
1+ 1 = 2
1 −1 = 0
1 * 1 = 1
1 / 1 = 1
Etc...
The operator is the +, -, * /, etc
The god operator is inclusive of all known operators and allows such things as:
1 GOD 1 = whatever answer Fits
AND
1 GOD 1 = sqrt(-1), PI, Etc..
How do we define the operator when GOD can be “whatever works”?
My main thoughts then went to the idea of a “universal machine” much like Turing...
What specifically is the mechanism of the human mind that would allow both of the above examples?
I think that the key words are “reasonably smart”.
Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit is a good starting point, and it could be said that each of his examples are easily translatable to a oration of less than 5 minutes (as per Candle in the Dark), I have often thought that it would make a good children’s book (Carl and the Baloney Detector)...
A good resource would be the previous attempts at such a work, Aesop’s Fables (Platitudinal), I Ching (Esoteric), and Judeo-Christi-Islamic Texts (Dogmatic). If we are to attempt a similar work for the ideas of reason then what can we learn from them to tell the aspects of how to provide a bible, or even a psalm, of reason?
It is a good starting point to keep a single idea down to what can be said before interest is lost and short enough to keep interest...
Perhaps instead of providing a single interpretation of a reasonable argument it would be a location for an argument idea, with the many interpretations of the specific argument and with related topics provided as a link?
So, in other words, Here is the Concept, These are the Arguments, This is What Concepts Relate, which could be kept to under 5 minutes.
“The WIKIRESONIA” :)