Descartes, a highly regarded philosopher, once argued that we cannot know something if we are unable to distinguish the case wh

Our senses are also relative to the environment around us. During a certain situation it is common to realize some piece of knowledge, which would be not be the same in another situation. Knowledge from senses changes with respect to time, surrounding or the frame of reference, which causes an individual to perceive false knowledge. A person walking through the desert would notice a mirage at a distance but would never be able to approach the mirage because the mirage moves with the person due to his frame of reference. Sense knowledge is unable to provide us knowledge of the past and things happening in other parts of the world because they do not exist in reality, as it is restricted to a certain distance.

Rationality is the using of known facts and reasons as the basis for knowledge. To be rational means to be asking of every observation the question ‘Why?’ or ‘How?’. I has to be asked whether we can answer ‘Why?’ or ‘How?’ in every case. There are phenomenons in this world that are unexplainable and beyond the scope of the human mind making it impossible for the mind to draw reasons. For example the Bermuda triangle, which is a triangle inside which things vanish and never return. It is only through arbitrarily limiting the scope for these questions that we would be able to assert that the theories of modern science are absolute and universal truths and that hence God has no role. For example the assertion was made that Newton’s laws of motion were a universal truth. This limited the scope of asking “how?” because the answer would be “It just is!” To continue asking questions would just create confusion and would not yield the truth because it is not known in many cases.

Illusions may cause us to believe something is there which actually is not or did not happen. Illusions of sight are known as optical illusions and are used by magicians like David Copperfield to lead the audience into believing he performed magic while he actually performed an illusion to trick them. Hallucinations deceive people when they artificially create their own inner world, which they believe exists in reality. For example, when children create their own imaginary friend that follows them around and acts as their friend.

The activities of reason are twofold. First there is inference, in which we move from old knowledge to new knowledge. The strongest form of this is valid deductive inference, which occurs when it is not possible that our premises (what we are moving from) are true if our conclusion (what we are moving to) is false. One question here is how such inference could ever yield new knowledge and whether our conclusions follow from the premises. The second supposed activity of reason is the direct discovery of new truths or inductive reasoning. A truth that can be discovered by the activity of reason alone is called an a priori truth, and knowledge of it is a priori knowledge. This knowledge is based on a hypothesis that is tentative and subject to change. The problem with this is that one observation that goes against the hypothesis will make the hypothesis

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