How do we know if our emotion is enhancing or limiting our ability to gain knowledge through reasoning?
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coolfire247 (student)
EMOTIONS Reason and emotion are not always associated together; however the two are deeply intertwined at their bases. Emotion, defined as an inherent response to different situations which results in several variations of internal and external behaviors, is in fact always influencing our reasoning, which is defined as the application of logic in decisions and actions of everyday life and is gained through experience. The main knowledge issue present in this complex tangle of emotion and reasoning is, “How do we know if our emotion is enhancing or limiting our ability to gain knowledge through reasoning?” Although there are some instances in which our emotion may help our reasoning, the majority of circumstances in which knowledge can be gained through reasoning is tainted by the presence of emotion. Emotion can be used in many ways to enhance logic as a way of knowing. By having these two together, one can have a possibility of using emotion as a