Are some Ways of Knowing more likely than other to lead to Truth?

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Are some Ways of Knowing more likely than other to lead to Truth?

David Hume said: "Reason is, and ought to only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." In here, Hume emphasised the role of the perception over reason in getting knowledge and the truth. Thus in this essay, the role and the associated problem of perception, reason and language are considered and I will attempt to discuss which way of knowing has a higher chance than the others to lead to the truth.

Common definition from a dictionary for truth is usually something that is a true statement. Does this true statement include facts, principles or general statement that reflects the reality? Is it only scientific truth? Are moralistic and artistic truth considered in the definition? Thus truth can be defined in many perspectives and the importance of the ways of knowing in each perspective is different. However, they all have something in common. They strive to boil down the whole complicated finding into a general statement that reflects the reality. This is especially true in ethnic where broad statement such as