Monday, November 23, 2009
Descartes? or Hume?
Reason or Perception?? which is more valuable to human knowledge. As I have unfortunately learned in theory of knowledge class, there is no possible way to justify that either reason or perception soley is the "gateway" to knowledge. It is interesting that, although Rene Descartes and David Hume would never admit the other was correct, their central ideas of reason and perception correalate perfectly. Using my own knoweldge from both my "reason" and "perception" it is very difficult to aquire knowledge from just one way of thinking. This is how they realate to each other. One may reason something and this is generally done in the brain, unless of course there is yet another thing in the world which I fail to understand or even be aware of, Wheras Perception can be aquired through the senses. either way we reason stuff and then percieve it with our senses OR we percieve something through our senses and then we reason what an object is or if whatever it is actually exists. So if someone were to argue that either reason or perception were more important, id tell them from my point of view that they are narrow minded, because there are infinite possibilities in which one is used before the other but ultimately the other is used afterwards, and very few cases in which either reason or perception are used individually.
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