How Can the Different Ways of Knowing Help Us to Distinguish Between Something That Is True and Something That Is Believed to Be True?

Our emotions affect us in so many ways. Emotions affect the way we behave, our views and opinions, our relationships and our decision-making; therefore, they are very relevant to our day-to-day lives. It is important that people have an understanding of these emotions and that they are able to interpret them. Emotions can both help and hinder our ability to best live our lives. It is also important to realize that even our emotions are shaped and biased by our environment and those close to us.

Attempts to define “emotion” have proved to be rather difficult. Instead of searching for a comprehensive definition, Gross (2011) describes the three core features of emotions. First, emotions occur when an individual decides that a situation is relevant to his or her goals. Second, emotions are multi-faceted, and involve both subjective and physiological experiences, as well as behaviors. The third feature involves the authoritative nature of emotions. They have the powerful ability to interrupt ongoing processes, assert their priority over other activities, and force their way into awareness. For example, some traditions describe emotions as “disorganized interruptions of mental activity” (Salovey & Mayer, 1989). Emotions are such an

Firstly, emotions are extremely overpowering. No matter how insensitive someone is, the right emotion can easily overcome them. Emotions are the core of what makes up a human. In fact, decisions are 80 to 90 percent emotion-based. So, what an individual does depends on what mood one is in or how one is feeling. For example, if an individual is angry at a friend, because that anger, the individual will most likely choose to ignore that friend. The emotion, anger, influenced the choice to ignore the friend. The anger is too overbearing to ignore. In difficult situations, one will always go back to what feels “right”. Emotion will overpower logic. Abortion, for example, may not be what feels "right", the decision to abort may be a logical choice for someone. But, there could be a nagging sense of wrongness that comes with abortion, and one could decide not to choose abortion because it may feel morally wrong. Therefore, emotion will overpower

each other. Reasoning helps us to refine our emotions and emotions help us to evaluate our

In a world full of false news and information, it is often difficult to distinguish truth from fiction. Many individuals assume these ideas to be true without considering the merit behind these claims. However, considering the facts, we also need to ponder this idea: Can we really know anything for certain? While Hume argues, true knowledge is impossible to obtain by using experience alone, I argue that experience is the foundation of learning and that by establishing foundational ideas, we can ultimately reach true knowledge.

In this paper I will be writing about knowledge and belief referring to epistemology. I will be answering questions such as, “What is knowledge” and “What is belief”. I will also answer other questions related to the epistemology of knowledge and beliefs. Before we get into knowledge and beliefs, we must define what epistemology is and why epistemology is important.

Gettier’s short paper “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” demonstrates that contrary to the classic definition of Knowledge, which is seen as equivalent to justified true belief, there are cases where justified true belief does not exactly match up to what we generally understand as knowledge. Gettier uses two specific cases to illustrate that even when something is true and backed up with reasonable evidence, it still does not mean we actually know it. Therefore, justified true belief does not necessarily mean it is knowledge. Having understood Gettier’s argument, the title “Is Knowledge Justified True Belief?” is a confusing one for it seems to have two separate meanings. First, we can understand the title as, whether knowledge justified

I have recognized how emotions are playing a major role in our decision-making process. Noticing how Naz was influenced by his emotions helped me acknowledging how our emotions can delay or prevent us from making the best decision. Despite the fact that the outcome for Naz turns out to be beneficial, his emotions delayed him from reaching that outcome. Also, seeing how Naz intuition was accurate, even though it took him time to express it, helped me distinguishing the role of accurate intuition in the process of

One consistency in both texts of the Meno (Meno 99c) and Republic (Republic 472d) is that people who use true belief cannot show or explain how their belief is the truth. I believe this is one of the largest distinctions between knowledge and true belief. Knowledge is

Despite arguments for the reliability of faith, many maintain that faith alone is an invalid way of knowing and that reason provides a far better basis for knowledge. Renowned Greek philosopher, Plato, defined knowledge as “justified true belief.” According to Plato, an individual’s certainty or strong belief alone does not moderate as knowledge. Rather a belief must be justified through reliable evidence, and truth can be determined through several theories. In regards to faith, believing something does not necessarily make it true. Truth is objective and must be beyond a reasonable doubt, while faith is subjective to the

“Ways of knowing are a check on our instinctive judgments.” Evaluate this statement with reference to two ways of knowing.

Knowledge is the principal intellectual attainment studies of epistemology. Virtually all theorists agree that true belief is a necessary condition for knowledge, and it was once thought that justification, when added to true belief, yield a necessary and sufficient condition for knowledge. All of us have an innate knowledge, concepts, forms, or universals that are an essential and inborn part that compose our mind. Without this rational knowledge would be impossible. Innate knowledge is a field of epistemology, which

For many people, they live their lives based on emotions. Emotions of happiness, love, success, and many more, could possibly be the most satisfying feelings. Except we commonly experience unpleasant emotions. There are emotions of anger, hatred, sadness, and disgrace. A very important question in the understanding of the human mind and highly related to cognitive science, is how do these emotions affect human cognition and the impact on our abilities to be rational? To tackle this question, we need to understand what emotions are, but not solely in the manner we are all familiar with, we need to understand them from a cognitive nature involving our physiology, psychology, and environment. Cognition, according to the Oxford definition

Decision making is one of the severe problems that happen to a lot of people. It is even harder when you are not in a good state of mind. An anonymous once said ‘you don’t make major life decisions when you’re reeling from a loss’ because when you are in a state of loss or disappointment your mind is not thinking through. Hence, people intend to make an imprudent decision in unsteadiness state of mind. Every action has its consequences. Thus, it is vital to an individual to think thoroughly before making any decision. The current state of mind might be an important factor in decision making when a person’s mood is correspondence with the task or situation (Guzak, 2014). The journal is to find out the differences in the decision made by an individual in

The production of knowledge is a process that occurs through a sequence of related actions, these series of actions allows for the Ways of Knowing to interact in a way that works to develop the knowledge that is being produced. From the prescribed title we can claim that while the Ways of Knowing may appear to be acting in isolation when forming knowledge, they are actually working in a variety of different ways in the construction and formation. In some cases, the Ways of Knowing are interacting so closely together that it is often hard to differentiate between them, for example emotion and reason, or imagination and memory. Given the right circumstances faith can be isolated to a point where it can be acting by itself to produce knowledge. However, this knowledge is often deemed as unreliable, due to faith being seen as one of the more “subjective” ways of knowing. This inability to differentiate the ways of knowing from each other during the production of knowledge, raises the questions “Can any knowledge in any Area of Knowledge be produced by a single Way of Knowing?” and “Is it possible to distinguish between Ways of Knowing if they are working together?”. While reason is used in almost all production of knowledge, it is the other Ways of Knowing used that can determine whether the knowledge is reliable or not, as some Ways of Knowing are more subjective than others. This essay will attempt to