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Why is reason so compelling?

This was a question my Epistemology professor and I were discussing. unfortunately we never resolved the question. So maybe you fine philosophers here could help.

It seems axiomatic that reason is the mode by which we arrive at the truth, but how is it and why is it the means by which we arrive at the truth? I used to just accept, there are no other useful alternatives, but that just raises the question: Is reason compelling because it's useful? And if that is the case than reason won't necessarily always arrive at the truth.

If anyone also knows any literature on this subject I'd be very grateful.
gpt
Schopenhauer provides the counsel of despair: Reason is compelling because we appeals to the cognitive apparatus by which we understand experience. In a way, that's an inversion of the medieval conception of *adequatio*. We are not privileged by our capacity for understanding a reasoning that independently describes truth; rather, reason is adequate to our capacity for cognizing the world, which means that reason is a human constraint on knowledge. That's a counsel of despair because it provides, at the very same time, an explanation and a limit. If sufficient reason is just how we cognize experience, then there's no guarantee that it points us to the truth.