The Importance Of Reasoning

The first thing that must be discussed in order to answer the question appropriately is: What is truth? This is a really difficult question to answer. There is a big difference between something that is believed to be true and something that is true, basically because if something is believed to be true is not completely certain or accurate, could be one way or another. On the other hand something that is true is certain and definitive and no questions are raised, but there are many types of truth as well. According to Daniel Patrick Moynihan “Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but they're not entitled to their own facts” which means that everyone can believe in what they want, but their facts must be able to be seen and understood

Reasoning could be the most important way of knowing that is used to decide whether something is true or not certain. Logic is used to determine when a knowledge is true or inaccurate. Usually, when an authority states that something is true, people believe it unless they have some kind of knowledge in that field. Reasoning is a very important feature that helps to reach to a conclusion based on prior

Emotions can make everything look blurry and generate doubt when it comes to truth, it can alter the results and conclusions lightly or in large quantities. When it comes to emotions, people tend to believe in what they are more emotionally attached to, their emotions influence in what someone believes something is true or not; the stronger the feeling, then you are more attached to something. This way of knowing affects directly and neutralizes the previous one, reasoning. When using emotions, people are blind to the truth, because they don’t what to see the reality of what they are attached to.

In here comes the term, “Appeal to Authority”. When someone that has an authority over us tells us something, we usually believe it, because we trust in that person and we feel that their knowing are certain. For example, when we were kids, our parents told us that Santa Claus existed, we believed them basically because we were emotionally attached to them and because they had authority over us. Just as mentioned previously, the concept “Appeal to Authority” also comes in reason. We believe in an authority’s words unless we have some kind of knowing in that field and we can fight against their point.

In conclusion, the four ways of knowing can provide us, independently, evidence for us to get closer to the real truth. However, each of them has their own limitations. Something