sAviOr Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 My class has a discussion about "ways of knowing" coming up and were supposed to discuss which way we think is better, reason or perception.(we're just focusing on these two for now and will discuss emotion and language later) Which do you guys think is better, reason or perception, and why? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkSpider Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 The debate itself is rather flawed, because reason is the ability to use premises to come to conclusions, whereas sense perception is a means of getting new premises. Both are useless without the other. If we're talking about usefulness factor, perception cannot interpret, so reason would be IMO the more important of the two, because it allows us to look objectively, where our senses are everything but objective. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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