TESTIMONY, REASONS AND RATIONALITY
EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENTS The belief that we are able to secure the substance of the world is grounded on yet another, much more substantial and deeply rooted, belief about reason and rationality as the fundamental and distinctive feature of human capacity. The faith in rationality sustains the long-held belief in a sure way to truth and to knowledge. Reason operates on a fundamentally different level from rationality. While forms of rationality refer to objects, reason focuses on the forms of rationality. Keywords: Reason, Rationality, Testimony, Epistemology, Testimony -belief, Justification, Evidence INTRODUCTION According to a traditional philosophical view, dating back to Aristotle and shared by Immanuel Kant and many others, what makes human beings different from the other animals is that human beings are rational or have reason. Reasoning may be taken to describe the activity of working out what to do or believe by thinking, in which case reason is simply the capacity ...