nicgurl Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 What are the disadvantages of prioritizing knowing in a certain order?For example, what problems arise when a knower focuses on knowing solely based on emotion, reason, sense perception, or language? ahhh! thanks for your replies Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwich Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Just take examples to figure it out For instance what if we were really obese, but also really wanted a piece of cake. Imagine if we prioritised emotion - we'd eat the cake. Prioritising reason, we wouldn't eat the cake. If we prioritised language and somebody told us a lie, we'd choose language over our intuition that they were lying and believe them.If we prioritised sense perception over reason, we'd genuinely think rainbows were solid and that we could go about finding them.That sort of thing should lead you down the right path. Just think of reasons when prioritising one way of knowing leads to a rubbish and obviously untrue conclusion, or behaviour we wouldn't want for ourselves. Then conclude by saying we need all of them-- unless you decide we should prioritise one of them (reason for instance) over the others as a general rule, with a few exceptions. Or maybe emotion. Maybe it depends on the person? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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