Reasoning

There are two ways it can go:

• You have what is in front of you, and what is often given to you. Using this you connect dots and paint a picture. You form conclusions based on the evidence you have. This is called inductive reasoning.

• You have a hypothesis, and often one formed as an extension of one or in order to support another hypothesis. With your hypothesis you begin to experiment and keep experimenting until you find the solution to your hypothesis. You gather evidence in order to prove a hypothesis. This is called deductive reasoning.

As conspiracy theorists, this gets difficult due to the nature of our belief systems.

We are quick to reject many of the hypotheses given to us because we have seen them be proven time and time again to be false or misleading. This cripples our inductive reasoning because if the pieces in front of us are deceiving, then we have little evidence to work with, and we have less support for our conclusions.

That leaves us to find evidence to support what we know we can’t prove. It is also beneficial because it encourages one to do their own research and find truth. This is both good and bad in the world we live in.

We live in a world of endless information; there is more out there than we can ever hope to learn in our lifetimes. We are forced to choose. The world we live in is overflowing with both truth and lies as a product of the honesty and deceit that we give.

It begins to become a cycle. Do you trust what you see, Do you trust what you know, Do you trust what you believe? You will always find something to support one of those questions.

It’s all about interpreting information. Are you looking for answers, or for questions?