I chose to talk about the criteria for accepting or rejecting claims. I will try to give my opinion as well as possible although I am still slightly confused and just got back from the homecoming tailgate. Go Spartans! Anyway, the best way to find information that is reliable is to trust ourselves and our own personal experiences that we have already encountered in life. As the book says, "our most reliable source of information about the world is our own experience." It is important to trust yourself because that is honestly the only person you can trust. On the other hand, the book uses a good example of when NOT to trust your own experience when talking about eyewitness. It is true because when something happens real quick like a criminal punching you in the face, it is going to be really difficult to get a good enough look to be sure that you can trust what you saw. Nonetheless, our own experiences are usually the best way to judge if we can accept a claim or not. The book sums this up the best:
-We accept a claim if we know it is true from our own experience.
-We reject a claim if we know it is false from our own experience.
EXCEPTIONS:
-We have good reason to doubt our memory or our perception.
-The claim contradicts other experiences of ours, and there is a good argument against the claim
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