We often think about a series of happenings in an event and one thing sticks out from the rest. That one thing seems to be the keystone of reasoning that puts everything into perspective for us. We then exclaim in contentment and mutter a long hummmmm.... We have reasoned out something in our mental playground and this hummm... is our victory shout.
We are all slaves to reason, explanations. We need to know how and why events occur. Is this attitude a by product of scientific era or is this something fundamental to human nature? Do we look for explanations because we have to or do we do so because we have been taught to? Maybe the excessive scientific culture stresses too much on looking for reasoning for everything.
We are not really taught any other way of examining things/events/occurances. But then the question arises is there any other possible way of going around things? If there is, has anyone tried his or her hands at it?
I personally think too much emphasis on the scientific way of thinking is making us biased towards just one way of thinking. We fail to look at things from a different perspective once we are flooded with our logical reasoning and its illusive ways. But does anything like logic exist? I have my doubts on that one too. What is logic afterall just our own sets of belief that we hold supreme. This, thus, my friends, is, something restricted by our knowledge. In other words the limits of our certainty are defined by the limits of our knowledge. This is really strange. It is the general perception that limits of our uncertainty are defined by our knowledge. The less knowledge we have less certain we would be about something. But if we adhere to my logic then more knowledge also makes us more uncertain.
That goes on to say, by way of logic, that logic itself can't be a standardized tool for accessing anything. It can be a temporal tool but not a universal tool.
We are all slaves to reason, explanations. We need to know how and why events occur. Is this attitude a by product of scientific era or is this something fundamental to human nature? Do we look for explanations because we have to or do we do so because we have been taught to? Maybe the excessive scientific culture stresses too much on looking for reasoning for everything.
We are not really taught any other way of examining things/events/occurances. But then the question arises is there any other possible way of going around things? If there is, has anyone tried his or her hands at it?
I personally think too much emphasis on the scientific way of thinking is making us biased towards just one way of thinking. We fail to look at things from a different perspective once we are flooded with our logical reasoning and its illusive ways. But does anything like logic exist? I have my doubts on that one too. What is logic afterall just our own sets of belief that we hold supreme. This, thus, my friends, is, something restricted by our knowledge. In other words the limits of our certainty are defined by the limits of our knowledge. This is really strange. It is the general perception that limits of our uncertainty are defined by our knowledge. The less knowledge we have less certain we would be about something. But if we adhere to my logic then more knowledge also makes us more uncertain.
That goes on to say, by way of logic, that logic itself can't be a standardized tool for accessing anything. It can be a temporal tool but not a universal tool.
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