What are the advantages of discriminating between valid and invalid arguments, good and bad reasons, more or less persuasive reasoning, both for the individual knower and for society?

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What are the advantages of discriminating between valid and invalid arguments, good and bad reasons, more or less persuasive reasoning, both for the individual knower and for society? In evaluating the advantages of good arguments and reasoning for society, a knowledge issue that can be derived is: how necessary is reason in establishing justice in relation to other ways of knowing? One of the most important and foremost ways of knowing is reason. All arguments or judgments made by either witnesses or attorneys must follow a logical path of reason in order to be believable and
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persuasive. Without logos or some degree of rationality, the argument is failed and ineffective. Any given trial is based on factual evidence presented to the jury for them to assess and draw a verdict based on reason. The claim that reason is the most essential to justice rests on the assumption that the most important part of the judicial process is determining guilt or innocence. Some may view the sentencing of a criminal to be the most important part, and it can be argued that emotion plays a greater role in achieving justice in that respect. An appeal to pathos ...

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