sravna
Well-known member
Too much in favor of reason is being said these days that it seems there is a need for some balance.
Reasoning is something that we do when we have certain assumptions, present certain premises and facts and arrive at a conclusion based on the premises. For reasoning to be correct the conclusion should follow from the premises and all the assumptions and premises should be true.
So we do the steps of listing out our premises and our assumptions and how the conclusion is drawn based on them.
Faith is something which doesn't involve doing these patent steps but something that happens when a thought seems to resonate with some other thought that would cause the belief in the latter. Faith happens at a deeper level and I say that the same patent steps that are carried out in the reasoning process is automatically and imperceptibly done by our mind.
More importantly I would say that the logical reasoning that we do is only the writing down of the thoughts grasped imperceptibly by the mind, in a cogent manner so that they can be communicated to others.
So it is always a faith in the deeper sense that everyone has with regard to any subject as there is virtually nothing that can be completely proved by logic as we base them on many assumptions and premises that cannot be given proof or evidence. It is the extent to which one carries out the patent steps that differs.
So as long as the conviction of a person on a topic differs from that of another person, it is very difficult to settle the argument.
Reasoning is something that we do when we have certain assumptions, present certain premises and facts and arrive at a conclusion based on the premises. For reasoning to be correct the conclusion should follow from the premises and all the assumptions and premises should be true.
So we do the steps of listing out our premises and our assumptions and how the conclusion is drawn based on them.
Faith is something which doesn't involve doing these patent steps but something that happens when a thought seems to resonate with some other thought that would cause the belief in the latter. Faith happens at a deeper level and I say that the same patent steps that are carried out in the reasoning process is automatically and imperceptibly done by our mind.
More importantly I would say that the logical reasoning that we do is only the writing down of the thoughts grasped imperceptibly by the mind, in a cogent manner so that they can be communicated to others.
So it is always a faith in the deeper sense that everyone has with regard to any subject as there is virtually nothing that can be completely proved by logic as we base them on many assumptions and premises that cannot be given proof or evidence. It is the extent to which one carries out the patent steps that differs.
So as long as the conviction of a person on a topic differs from that of another person, it is very difficult to settle the argument.