Silva, Maria Georgina T. 1PHL1 15 September 2014 Insight Essay #1 Logical Reasoning Put to the Test In order to fully understand the act of philosophizing, one must develop certain traits. I can say that mine is logical reasoning. Can you just imagine living without knowing anything? You’ll just sit there and let everything around you happen because you don’t know what’s the reason why all these things are happening around you? Well, I can’t. As human beings, we tend to ask a lot of questions, simply because it is in our nature to be curious. You can ask a lot of questions but when it comes to answering questions, it’s a different kind of story because you can’t just merely answer questions being thrown at you spontaneously. (Well, unless …show more content…
Logical and Reasoning. Logical is defined as a critical form of thinking. As in, you have to perceive things, absorb them and think them through, thoroughly. It isn’t just merely giving things a purpose without any validation. Let’s use a dwarf from Snow White as an example: He is always grumpy, he never smiles at anyone. Therefore he is the dwarf named Grumpy. We based who the dwarf is by his appearance and characteristics. Meanwhile, reasoning is the state of understanding things. We use our reason to gather certain knowledge about things and use that knowledge to explain things further (Since I believe that nothing in this world has a definite meaning because we still tend question everything). Without reason, we aren’t human, because reason is what makes us human. We have the capacity to think, unlike the other creatures that just use their instinct to live on a daily basis. Unlike animals, we tend to ask questions about life and whatnot. Have you ever heard of a depressed panda because it couldn’t figure out why it exists as Asian, black and white? (That just happens in cartoons.) When we combine these two words together, we still get the same meaning but it is much, much deeper when compared to their meaning when they’re broken apart. They support each other in such a way that combining them makes each other