The Importance Of Reception Of Knowledge

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We live in a world where massive amount of information is presented in the forms of books, websites, communications, etc. Reception of knowledge is one of the ways information transfers, but some parts of information may be misunderstood and misinterpreted by people themselves, probably causing inaccurate reception and cognition. The reason why knowledge may be misinterpreted is that people’s thoughts or feelings may affect how objectively they judge and receive the knowledge.
For the purpose of this essay, some key words should be defined in order to fit the context of this prompt. ‘Gaining knowledge’ will be interpreted as ‘ways people get and process information’. ‘Reason’ will be interpreted as ‘the rational way people receive and understand information’. ‘Emotion’ will be interpreted as ‘thoughts and feelings that may cause inaccurate reception and interpretation of information.’
In order for us to accurately receive, interpret and understand knowledge, we need to know the relationship between emotion and reason.
Knowledge question: Does emotion help or hinder reason in the production of knowledge? …show more content…

Some may argue that rational people always act without resorting to emotion. Debating rules explain that debaters cannot win by resorting to emotion instead of referring to logic, evidence and statistics. In a court, judges are supposed to use reason to make an important decision. However, emotion and reason are not independent of each other; their relationship is best explained as one works based on the other. Emotion may hinder people’s reasoning process, but it can also help reason, as contrary to most people’s view. Further exemplifications about if emotion helps or hinders reason lie

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