The reason I think emotion is not the most precise way of knowing is because, one emotion, for example sadness, can be explained in so many different ways that it is impossible to have just one answer for what sadness is. Everyone can have a person opinion on what sadness is and how it is to be dealt with, and their answer is somewhat true, but not precise enough, whereas natural sciences have one correct answer and no other. In general, I am trying to prove that emotions can be explained in so many ways, that it is hard to get one exact answer. The last example I have to back up my hypothesis is when reading a book in English, and the day after your teacher asks you about the physical emotions the main character is showing towards his/her mother, you might have come to the conclusion that is was physical emotions through hatred, whereas others might have thought of revenge, frustration, or sympathy. All of these examples are possible, but the similarities between them are so far apart that it is hard to get a precise answer which all students agree upon, whereas referring back to natural sciences, you either agree upon the correct given answer which the teacher has approved of, or you’re wrong in most cases. For example you could be discussing some homework in Physics, about the resistance of wire and how you have each individually calculated the given problem, in the end you compare results with your class mates and your teacher shows you the correct answer and how to do it. When he has shown you the correct way, you in most cases cannot prove him wrong unless he has made a mistake, because in Physics you follow a set of given equations which you must follow in order to complete the question, whereas in English we could take a similar example where a set of students have read a book, and for homework had to determine the message in the story. All classmates could have different answers and none of them could be wrong, in the end classmates and the teacher could discuss the different answers, but cannot defiantly say none of the answers are correct. Therefore when comparing the two subject, you would generally say in this case Physics is more accurate in the way that you can determine an answer more precisely.
In language a simple sentence such as “Wow, you’re so stupid” can be misunderstood in so many ways, usually because of different cultures, and how their language influences their understanding of certain ways of communicating. For example the given sentence I have written, Danish people are typically good with understanding irony, and in this case I wrote “Wow, you’re so stupid” ironically. So if you were to say this to a Danish person, they wouldn’t take it seriously, whereas a Muslim person would in most cases be offended of such a thing said to him/her. Some evidence I have to back up my point is I’ve lived in a Muslim country myself, and have experienced that simple irony can misunderstood deeply by the locals, of course this is only the case for Malaysian Muslims and not all Muslims in the world. To me this proves that in language, it is difficult to prove that what a person thinks a sentence mean, and which different ways it can be interpretated and understood. This makes it hard to find the truth and precise meaning of the ways of knowing in language. Another example I have of how language is hard to get the precise meaning and truth out of is for example direct translations. When you are translating some sentences from English to Danish it might not mean the same thing at all, an example I have is when talking about an activity you just participated in with a friend of yours and then saying, “That was very fun” in English it means that you really enjoyed yourself and had a lot of fun. When translating it into Danish it becomes, “Det var meget sjovt” meaning exactly the same thing, but in Danish it can be understood in a different way. If we use the same situation that you have been participating in an activity and you say, “Det var meget sjovt” it actually means that it was some what boring, and you didn’t have that much fun, but it was okay. So this proves how language clearly can be easily misunderstood and therefore hard to deduce whether its preciseness and truth.
The last way of knowing is sense perception; this is the use of all your senses to understand your surroundings, but sense perception is yet another imprecise way of finding the truth, because as time passes, our senses become an unstable variable, able to manipulate and trick us. Time is an enemy for the preciseness of sense perception, this is because as you get older your ability to hear weakens, which decreases the chance of you interpreting correctly through hearing. The next sense is seeing, as years pass ones eye sight usually weakens and therefore your ability to see through ways of knowing diminishes slowly. The next sense would be tasting, as you experience exotic foods you taste buds slowly ware out, for example the reason for children in most cases disliking strong cheeses is because they taste buds are sensitive compared to the adults warn out taste buds, this also wanes the preciseness of your ability to taste. The two senses which actually stay in the same shape are smell and feeling. In conclusion to sense perception, when 3/5 of the senses are inaccurate, it is hard to determine the truth of a given problem.
In conclusion I state that “reason” is the best ways of knowing to find the truth, I back up my statement with all of the following examples which I have shown for each different way of knowing. To end this essay I simply say, “The truth is hard to determine whatever way of knowing you use its how you interpret the truth that makes it more precise.