1. Difference between
reason and belief
S. JEGATHEESWARAN
THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF
PRECEPTORS
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2. SYNOPSIS
• Introduction
• Reason
• Reasoning
• Belief
• Difference between reason and belief
• Conclusion
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3. INTRODUCTION
• Faith and rationality are two
ideologies that exist in
varying degrees of conflict or
compatibility.
• Rationality is based on
reason or facts.
• Faith is belief in inspiration,
revelation, or authority. The
word faith sometimes refers
to a belief that is held with
lack of reason or evidence.
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4. REASON
• Reason is the capacity of
consciously making sense of
things, establishing and verifying
facts, applying logic, and
adapting or justifying practices,
institutions, and beliefs based on
new or existing information.
• It is closely associated with such
characteristically human
activities as philosophy, science,
language, mathematics, and art
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5. REASONING
• Reorganizing and combining
our experiences and ideas in
new ways using the rules of
logic, to judge the correct
solution of the problem
which confronts us
• Tool in problem solving.
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6. TYPES OF REASONING
• Inductive
• Deductive
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7. INDUCTIVE REASONING
• Inductive - the process of comparing and
combining the individual obtained so as to infer
from them a more generalised rule or principle.
• Induction is the process of inferring the unknown
from the known facts.
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12. DEDUCTIVE REASONING
• A hypothesis or a general principle inferred by
inductive reasoning is subjected to verification in a
particular instance to know it's truthfulness which
is otherwise called deduction".
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15. BELIEF
• Acceptance of something as true, even in the
absence of proof.
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16. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REASON
AND BELIEF
REASON
• Permanent; based on
evidences.
• The act of reasoning
alone brings out the true
nature of beliefs
• Helps as a way to get
knowledge
BELIEF
• Temporary; not based on
evidences.
• Beliefs which are true
tend to help in
developing knowledge.
• Starting point of getting
knowledgeable.
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17. CONCLUSION
• Accepting of something
blindly as true without
being ready to examine the
evidences is called wrong
beliefs. In the absence of
evidences, beliefs are taken
to be true.
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18. REFERENCES
• K.Nagarajan, Knowledge and curriculum, Sriram
Publishers.
• N. Mohan, Knowledge and curriculum, Thiruvallur
Publications
• Nallamur Dr. G. Periannan, Knowledge and
curriculum, Vanitha Pathippagam
• https://www.google.com/amp/s/philosophyterms.c
om/inductive-reasoning/amp/
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