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TESTIMONY, REASONS AND RATIONALITY

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  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 to do tha

LEARNING AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING

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  LIFE IS LEARNING Learning concept in the light of the opinions of behaviorists, connectivity, and humanists. Understanding is merely seeing relationship or patterns and applications require not more than the transfer of training. According to the humanists, learning is a personal act of an individual to fully utilize his potential. It is essential that instructional activities should be based on the learners’ basic needs for the success of the learning process. In this article, I'm going to talk about learning, knowledge, type of knowledge, perception, Epistemology and passion. Keywords: Critical thinking, Knowledge, Cognitive, Argument, Logical fallacies, Neuropsychology, Perception, Analyze INTRODUCTION Learning has been defined by educational psychologists in different ways and meanings. It has been explained as a quantitative increase in knowledge, memorizing of facts, skills, and methods that can be retained and used as necessary. We start learning at birth. The processes o

LOGIC AND ARGUMENT

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  EVERYTHING'S AN ARGUMENT INTRODUCTION An argument can be a reason given in support of an action or idea. For relatedly an argument can be the combination of the reason and the claim it is taken to support. In other words, an argument, as an inferential argument will be a set of premises (evidence) and a conclusion (claim) bound together in some way. Finally, an argument can be a dialogue in context. Arguments are sets of propositions linked through a set of logical rules, and arguments are sound solely in virtue of their structure and the truth of their premises.  Keywords : Absolutism, Evidence, Logical reasoning, Practical arguments, Thinking critically, Deductive  argument, Premises, Conventional, Diverse, Indirectly, Linguistic The Argument The argument is a series of statements (in a natural language), called the premises or premises (both spellings are acceptable), and intended to determine the degree of truth of another statement, the conclusion. Argumentation is a social

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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SCIENCE AND LOGICAL INQUIRY Logical thinking and the Philosophy of Science examine basic problems in formal and informal reasoning, the character of scientific reasoning, and different problems involved with the methodology that scientific knowledge, the rise of modern science, the nature of scientific entities, and metaphysical concepts that underlie science. Philosophical discussions targeted the question of whether or not there have been any discernible patterns within the production of the latest information. Philosophy more generally its boundaries are more open-ended than those of disciplines like sociology, biology, physics, or mathematics, however far you pursue these latter disciplines, questions of general interest remain unanswered questions about the world, the concepts we use to describe it, and the ways we reason about it. PHILOSOPHY Philosophy is that the study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and langu