Marie Couffon
Mr. J Theory of Knowledge
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If reason and perception have their own process of leading to truth, then is there some ways of knowing more likely than others to lead to truth?
I think that Reason and Perception have their own process which leads to truth and therefore that there isn’t any way of knowing which is more likely to lead to truth than others. Truth depends on each human being, how they, individually, consider it. Humans have their own definition of truth, but this truth can be shared or personal which means that a person can have his/ her own truth but also a group or more than one person can agree on the same truth. Perhaps, truth is or isn’t different for each humans being. As reasons’ process is the explanation of how something is the way it is is and perceptions’ is by how human beings understand something via their senses, sight, sound, touch, taste, smell and so their processes are different. Therefore the processes of others way of knowing is different too then we can’t say that some ways of knowing are more likely than other to lead to truth.
One way of defining truth is by reason, when something has been proved or studied that the thing is the way it is, and then the something has a reason to be the way it is. The process that leads to truth is different as it can be proved or studied differently. For example mathematics, which is an area of knowledge, mathematics are given by reasons and logics: 1+1 =2 , the entire world knows that, as it has been proved that it should be this way but 1+1=2 has been studied or proved differently and therefore people understand it differently as each human being is different. According to rational points of views, reasoning will be more as a shared knowledge because reasons are something that has been proven or studied by more than one person and shared knowledge is also