Epistemology is he study of our right to the beliefs we have. In a broader sense, we start from what we call our cognitive stances, and ask whether we are justified to have these stances. When discussing cognitive stances, we must include both our beliefs as well as what we take to be our knowing. At an even deeper level we examine our attitudes towards the various strategies and methods we use to get new beliefs and filter out old ones. Epistemology is concerned then with whether we have acted responsibly or irresponsibly in forming the beliefs we have. Based on this process, we ultimately want to find true knowledge or justified belief. Traditionally, there are four sources of knowledge; sensation, memory, introspection, and reason.
The one source of knowledge that I am particularly interested in discussing and examining is reason. The activities of reason are dualistic in nature. First, there is inference, in which we move from old knowledge to new knowledge. The......
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