We See and Understand Things Not as They Are but as We Are
Theory of Knowledge
“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing.
Name: Carlos Hill Quinta
Candidate Number: 0650 035
Word count: 1,495
People are aware of reality just how they see it and how they live it. People perceive things how they understand it which sometimes can lead to conflicts and discussions on the fact that each person can perceive things differently. One way speaking people perceive and understand things by using their five senses: seeing; hearing; smelling; feeling and tasting. People can have different perceptions of reality by means of drugs, diseases or some kind of sense deficient, such as blindness, deafness or muteness. These normally can affect people’s understandings of things and situations. People also understand things using intuition which generally means that they guess or estimate things as we look at them or imagine them. And this certainly reflects on what the claim says: where, we understand things not as they are but as we are. I will be discussing this claim in relation to two ways of knowing: perception and intuition. I will consider reality in a way that people perceive it as they are and not how reality is present to us. I will do this giving an example of self experience in class and using facts of real life situations.
People behave and decide to believe in what they want to believe considering their experiences, cultural baggage and beliefs. In terms of perception and how people perceive things around them, people with some sort of problems with their senses are not able to understand things how they are but as they think they are using their other senses to help them understand things their way.
For example a colour blind person will not understand the colours of objects as they are but as the person perceives it. It will affect the way the person identifies things and people. Also imagine a deaf person, will not understand
“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing.
Name: Carlos Hill Quinta
Candidate Number: 0650 035
Word count: 1,495
People are aware of reality just how they see it and how they live it. People perceive things how they understand it which sometimes can lead to conflicts and discussions on the fact that each person can perceive things differently. One way speaking people perceive and understand things by using their five senses: seeing; hearing; smelling; feeling and tasting. People can have different perceptions of reality by means of drugs, diseases or some kind of sense deficient, such as blindness, deafness or muteness. These normally can affect people’s understandings of things and situations. People also understand things using intuition which generally means that they guess or estimate things as we look at them or imagine them. And this certainly reflects on what the claim says: where, we understand things not as they are but as we are. I will be discussing this claim in relation to two ways of knowing: perception and intuition. I will consider reality in a way that people perceive it as they are and not how reality is present to us. I will do this giving an example of self experience in class and using facts of real life situations.
People behave and decide to believe in what they want to believe considering their experiences, cultural baggage and beliefs. In terms of perception and how people perceive things around them, people with some sort of problems with their senses are not able to understand things how they are but as they think they are using their other senses to help them understand things their way.
For example a colour blind person will not understand the colours of objects as they are but as the person perceives it. It will affect the way the person identifies things and people. Also imagine a deaf person, will not understand