midterm reasoning

is a mode of thinking (situating itself in the near future) in which ideas are crafted, debated, and negotiated in relation to a self-consciously partial knowledge of the unfolding present.

What worries Guyer about such 'evacuation of the temporal frame of the near future' is the disappearance of a space of what she calls 'midterm reasoning' in which ideas are crafted, debated, and negotiated in relation to a self-consciously partial knowledge of the unfolding present. According to Guyer, such intimate engagement with the 'near future' has given way to a faith in the ultimate truth and its accompanied abeyance of human agency (see also Miyazaki 2000): (Miyazaki 2007 :430)

midterm reasoning, n.All

midterm reasoning