Ways of knowing comes down to sense perception, emotion, language and reasoning. Reason is probably the most important one. You need to use reason to get the truth.
sense perception
emotion
language
reasoning
It seems to me that the first three (sense perception, emotion, language) can't be relied on as much as the last one (reason) to find truth. I think they can be useful to "gather data", but not rely on them solely. One has to use reason to piece the clues that one gathered from the first three to find truth.
First, I feel, you have to define 'truth'. For example, do you mean what one personally is prepared to accept as truth; or, what has been proven by empirical study, as in a scientific truth; or what the media/government/law/you name it tells us is the truth, including that which in some nations if you do not accept what you have been told is a certain historical truth, I mean not even question it or you will be imprisoned; kind of truth; or what is just generally accepted as being true by the majority.......
You see, to me, truth, like love is a four letter word and one that has become over used, and misused - like certain other four letter words of a base or expletive, nature. They sort of roll off the tongue so easily, and are instantly recognised by the masses - educated or not.
In the UK, but this happens all over, a man has just been found guilty of a crime committed over 30 years ago, and for which another man had been found guilty and served a long prison sentence. This resulted from more recent advances in DNA testing and matching which proved the first 'truth' wrong.
Many lives have been lost, and much suffering endured over accepted 'truth'. And many more will be.
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