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... Lekha Ravichandran Class # 3 12/7/08 ESSAY #6: All Knowledge Claims should be Open to Rational Criticism. On What Ground and Extent Do You Agree With This? If one makes a knowledge claim it has to be true, there must be justification, and he/she must believe it. In order to justify a claim, there must be physical evidence to prove the validity of its truth - and the most logical way to evaluate that is through rational criticism by using reasoning. But one must take into account the many factors that are involved when using reasoning with all knowledge claims since there are limitations that one must bear in mind. All knowledge claims should be open to rational criticism, but some only can be achieved to a certain degree since reasoning might be irrelevant depending on the subject matter. There are different ways of using reason
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