Sunday, January 8, 2017

The Limits of Logic Blog Post

What is the purpose of argument? 

The purpose of augmenting is for people to have access to anthropological reflexions to be able to conduct them to think on their own condition. Argumentation can be a reasoning destined to prove or defend one's opinion and we find it everywhere; in advertisements, in the press, in literature and even in spoken every day language, having a crucial and much more important role in our lives when we think it does. It could be going from a mother trying to convince her son to go to another university up to a environmentalists encouraging the limitation of water consumption. However this does not mean all arguments follow the same aim; depending on the speaker, they could have the intention of proving, convincing or persuading. 

Is it important to argue with proper reasoning? 
Arguing with proper reasoning is important because reasoning enables people to improve their knowledge, look for the truth and improve cognitive capabilities. Why is that sometimes we spend so much time and energy to do an activity that does not give good results in terms of finding the truth? It is because in such a complex world, and with our brain not being fully capable to simplify it, there is a need for humans to understand it; to convince others and evaluate their arguments. That being said, reasoning is not only to improve knowledge and decision making but also convincing your interlocutor in a debate or even unmasking those that maybe wanted to wrong you. Why do humans have a confirmation bias? Why is there motivation behind reasoning? Why are decisions based on the easiest justification? Argumentative reasoning is based on evolutionationary thinking therefore it is the only way an answer to any of these questions can be proposed, but this does not mean reasoning today is merely for augmenting.

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