Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Humans and the Four Main Ways of Knowing Language,...

As humans we normally depend on the four main ways of knowing; Language, emotion, sense perception and reason. Although, each way of knowing has its weakness. We usually use the ways of knowing together with one another. In some cases the area of knowledge may not use sense perception but most of the time we often believe that Math for example uses logic and reason. How true is this? Reason is considered to be one of the most powerful ways of knowing. One main strength of reason as a way of knowing is that it seems to provide us with validity. Individuals can interpret logic to be the study of the accurate way of reasoning. It includes disputes, deceptiveness, validity, invalidity and assumption. Logic makes it easier for us to comprehend exactly what our beliefs are and demonstrates how visibly we can exhibit them. Over the years logicians have come across two ways of reasoning; inductive and deductive. Inductive reasoning is the practice of scientific morals that is use to draw the most apparent or possible conclusion from proof. Inductive reasoning is the process of observing something for a long period of time then coming to a conclusion that it us as we observe it to be. But, due to the fact that it is based on our observation it can be considered biased meaning it doesnt really assure full certainty of knowing. For example inductive reasoning in the case of swans, a naturalist has been observing swans for a long period of time, he only sees the white swans therefore

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