Meiland essay: Paragraph 2

Hagiwara 1

Tomoya Hagiwara
Mr. James
ARW Section AC
1 Jun, 2007

Meiland essay: Paragraph 2

And second reason is a little bit similar to the first reason I stated above. In college, we also study the way we should deal with the fact. Let me give an example. If we believe undoubtedly something without evidence (just like feeling), it might turn out to completely be false. This suggests that a belief we believe without confirmation have a possibility of fault. Meiland says in “College Thinking” “it is rational to believe something only if one has a basis for that belief. One basis is what we call evidence” (THE ELP READER line 19, page 9). Therefore we learn that there is the possibility and that we must have evidence.