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The Art Of Reasoning
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We think that we are all logical creatures, that we can attain truth by our
logical reasoning, but historically, this has not been the case. Every
scientific advance somehow “exemplifies the defective state of the art of
reasoning of the time it was written.” (pg.62)
Thus, we are not perfectly log ....
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....methods are inadequate, why not have reason determine
our beliefs?
This method fails for several reasons. It fails because what our reason
tells us to believe is not necessarily consistent with our experiences; in
fact, experience only serves to defeat our beliefs at every turn. It also
fails because not everybody reasons the same way, and so it suffers the
same problem as that posed against the method of tenacity in that people
will disagree. Finally, "It makes of inquiry something similar .... |
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