The Importance Of Reasoning In History

History reflects the past, it is the study of past events. In consideration of this, it is impossible for us to be present in every single event that has occurred. Under the circumstances in which we are unable to be involved we use historical evidence to get information of the affair. By using sources, we must seek a way to extract knowledge from them. The best way of exploring information and getting facts and data is by connecting our area of knowledge, which in this case is history, with our ways of knowing, such as language, reason, emotion and others. The most valuable way of knowing in history is reason. Reason is when we form judgements logically, by using the information and understanding that we already have to get into an implication

Sometimes it can be logical, meaning valid, but not true, with a poor conclusion. Being logical doesn 't necessarily means it is true, it is understandable the calculation process it went through, however this can also be mistaken. Continuing with this idea of Hitler, I can argue that the main reason Hitler got into power was because he raised funds from the rich, wealthy parties bribe people into voting for them, therefore Hitler came to power because he bribed people. This is something that may have occurred and it is a logical reasoning, however it is not true. They raised money and this helped in their propaganda. Consequently, reasoning is the best way of knowing in this area, however it is not always true, so it is important to verify your conclusion, with the conclusion of others, to make it a more trustworthy way to gain

Everyone perceives their surrounding in a different way. Perception is defined as any faculty of sense by which the body perceives by external stimuli. History is filled up with perception, art, architecture, images and culture have great connection with perception. The most important area to take into account is how our perception changes over time. For example when we talk about medicine in the medieval times. We can argue that they had brutal and ridiculous ways of curing people. However, they didn 't see like that because their context was that the most modern way of curing people was the way they did it. Meaning that they perceived their medicine as helpful and completely logical and perfect to cure people. We already have another context, we know that what they did had a logical reason behind it but it wasn 't doing them any good. They believed that to cure toothache they had to burn a candle close to the teeth because the worms would fall off. This was completely reasonable for them, they perceived as an actual cure, however for us is ridiculous because we have more information about it. The advantages of perception is that it allows us to interact with the outside world and understand and process information. In one way, by perceiving that their medicinal cures were different we can obtain information by saying that they were logical but didn 't have much knowledge on the subject. Furthermore, there