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I can understand the fact that one cannot reason in a vacuum but that does not implies that one can only reason within the confines of one's experience.

The claim that one cannot reason beyond the confines of one's experience is not only fallacious but primitive and uncivilized articulation. Thinking within your experience is a limitation. Thinking within your experience is natural which is
"what is", but as a being of intelligentsia, you have to move from such experience to advance your thought, which is what ought to be.

I believe that you're aware of speculative and abstract thinking!
The question then is;

What is the principles of correct reasoning?

Sufficient and necessary reasons varies from individuals one individual to another. Therefore, there is no objective sufficient or neccesary reason. The statement with the will, there is no justified reason for decision making is a bit too extreme owing to the fact that most of the good deeds done by people is as a result of the will(emotion) For instance, if you give someone a lift in your car and the person ends up hurting you or robbing you, it is only the will that could make you give someone else a lift tomorrow in your car, rationality can't. So, with the will, there is justified reason for decison making. Moreso, we can not have a universal basis for reasoning because you reason according to your experiences and experiences differs so there can be one module of reasons.

However, If the above holds true, we would all be thrown into confusion. This implies that there is an accepted principle which conforms to the intellectual justification as a general principle. Some of these principles are conventional, while some are not.

It is the ability for one to think beyond the given that leads to discoveries and self realisation. For instance, a poor man who always thinks within the confines of poverty would fine it very difficult to move out of poverty. You can only reason within the confines of your experience is not a sufficient reason for you to draw such a conclusive claim, that you cannot reason beyond your experience.

Considering the objective way of thinking...who said that there is no objective way of thinking? Because of intellectual defense, you've derailed from some aspect the logos that illuminate your mind and as such you cannot rationalize comprehensively with the logos that illuminate your mind again.

Mathematical principle is an objective way of reasoning

The heart is the seat of emotions, where the will resides. While, the brain is the seat of intellect, where reason resides. One would arrive at a decision as a product of these forces.

This is to say that in our decision making, we are either caused to decide by our emotions or by reason and sometimes, by both. It is now obvious that one is confronted by these two forces.

This has contradicted your first claim where you expected me to comprehend your response according to your view(s) own understanding and not that of yours.

With the Intellect, one would always follow the principles of correct reasoning to arrived in any decision. Here, one must have a sufficient reason(Strong ground) or a necessary reason (weak reason) to draw a conclusion. Any decision that doesn't conforms to the correct principle(s) of correct reasoning is said to be irrational/error. Sometimes, decision making with a necessary reason is disputed.

With the will, there is no justified reason for decision making.

Decision making is a product of the heart based on emotion. One does things according to the wish of the heart with the directive of the Will.
However, even when one assumed of the negative resultant effect of such emotional act, one still fines it difficult to avoid making such emotional decision.

For instance, some relationship are caused by emotion while some are caused by reason-rationality.

Paying attention to only one of the will or the intellect causes confusion in the human existence. However, absolute application of reasoning may leads to strict and rigid decision which is capable of harming someone. But proper use of both brings harmony. In a proper reasoning which is a necessary reason, rationality is married to emotion and harmony becomes possible in human existence. This is where one mind is steady.

However, I see Situations of life being possibly addressed when rationality varies directly proportional to emotions. Humanism in human existence can be achieved or practiced in the proper senses if the two forces are properly deployed.

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