Do sense perception, reason, and emotion have the same weight in providing
good evidence for claims within the different areas of knowledge? (Compare
Human sciences & Natural sciences). 750 WORDS!
Natural sciences: -observing the natural world
Human sciences: -observing human behavior
Methods: hypothesis, materials, observations.
In the human and natural sciences, sense perception, reason and emotion
are weighed either equally or differently. This is examined by the ways of
knowing (Wok’s) in the human and natural sciences. Sense perception can be
used in both the human and natural sciences.
Sense perception is the intuitive understanding and apprehension of the
senses. Perception is not weighed any differently in the human and natural
sciences. They both have an equal amount of power and good use of the senses.
The power of perception is evident to the observations being made due to the
senses that are used to perceive something. For example, “ I am sitting on my
couch, and I look out the window and catch a glimpse of lights increasingly
getting closer. I then use my senses to predict that it was car headlights that
seemed to be approaching me at a fast velocity. A couple of seconds later, the car
passes by at a high speed.” Therefore, my sense of perceiving was true. Although
the five senses may not always be accurate, it is still more reliable depending on
the results of your mind reflections. However, reasoning is another W.O.K. that
may result in creating justification of a statement to be either true or false.
The three ways of reasoning are deductive, inductive and informal
reasoning. Deductive reasoning, also known as deductive logic is only most
useful when you have a true premise. To define it, it is a way of reasoning that is
used to create a connection between the truth in the conclusions and the truth of
the premise. For example, “All businessmen are people,” this is a true premise. As
a result of this, a suggested goal is to see if the truth in the premise is also
maintained in the conclusion. However, inductive reasoning, which is also known
as inductive logic, is mostly used to change positions from major/specific facts of
a statement to general conclusions. Induction is also used to help the specific
facts of a statement to create an approach of explanations about the facts and
helps predict the upcoming events of the future. Last but not least, informal
reasoning is the bad reasoning’s that are being made. Nevertheless, this means
that informal logic is not the best choice to use when reasoning even if the steps
followed are correct; the results will not be accurate. How are the three ways of
knowing related or used in human and natural sciences? The three ways of
reasoning, which are deductive, inductive and informal reasoning, are all
applicable to the human and natural sciences. Although they are not all equally
useful, they are not useless either. In relation to reason, emotion is the feelings of
ones self or about others. For example, you see a young kid on the playground
alone with a sad face on; you will feel that the kid is sad. Those are some type of
feelings that you may get at any time.