To what extent is our sense perception a reliable source of knowledge? Ramelia Merritt 10/27/14 To start with‚ using our senses many possibilities for knowledge are openedto us. Our senses have some limitations that prevent us from our knowledge. But what is knowledge? Generally‚ knowledge is a term that a lot of people accept when they want to say that they know something. More specifically‚ knowledge for meis when I can not only know something‚ but when I can understand something. Knowledge is
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and taste. These are the senses we have and we use this everyday. We use sight to see‚ taste to eat‚ feel to touch and hear to listen. We have to use these senses definitely to study‚ for knowledge. First we have to have sight to learn. Sight is everything. We look at the board to see what the teacher wrote and look at books to see the problems. If we did not have sight‚ our possibilities for knowledge would be limited into few things. We would not know what the world is like. We would not know
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1. Who and what gives us our identity? There are many things that make up who we are today. Which include language‚ culture‚ race‚ personal choices‚ nationality‚ tastes in music‚ food‚ etc. I believe that the most important components of our identity comes from our race‚ culture‚ religion and socio—economic status. Race and religion play an important role in formation of our identity because these factors are the roots. The beginning of the beginning. Race is something that you can’t change‚
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Recall: In the essay “Our Knowledge of the World Around Us‚” the author makes a number of points: 1) An external physical world does not exist 2) The only things that are in existence are the human brain and the ideas it generate 3) Perception is the brain’s own interpretation of what happens outside. 4) We are living in a Matrix Summary: The author rejects the concept of common sense or what he calls as “direct realism” that holds that the world is fairly represented as it is. He argues that seeing
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To what extent should we trust our senses to give us the truth? Most of the things we know are based on a life-long series of observations and experiments through our own senses. Without our senses‚ social interactions and critical thinking would be impossible‚ leaving us only with inexplicable emotions‚ a close state to nothingness. Despite its significance‚ however‚ our senses have limitations ranges from our dependency to language to our own biological limitations. Human beings are inherently
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To what extent is our ‘identity’ chosen for us? What is identity? Where does identity come from? For some identity is who we are as a whole and according to the Oxford English Dictionary identity is ‘prove or recognise who or what a person or thing is’. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology on the other hand starts off with a three page explanation on how identity came about. In this essay we will look at the issue of identity using the macro perspective‚ structural functionalism and hopefully reach
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When should we trust our senses to give us truth? Word count: 779 words Our senses help us interact with the world. Smell‚ hearing‚ sight‚ taste‚ touch‚ and external stimulus play a major role in shaping our perceptions of the surroundings and the world. To trust our senses means that we have justified belief of what we perceive is “true”. To what extent can our senses give us truth? In order to obtain a better understanding of under what conditions we can rely on our senses‚ we need to compare
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we trust our senses to give us truth? Our senses should be trusted in certain circumstances. Our senses can only provide us with raw information‚ but in order to gain knowledge and understanding of the information we need to implicate other ways of knowing. There is a limitation to trusting your senses because our perception will only go as far as our sense organs will allow us‚ but other ways of knowing such as but not limited to‚ reason will allow us to progress even further. Senses are the
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trust our senses to give us truth? Our senses are the connection between our minds and the environment‚ through our senses we receive information from the external environment‚ senses perception were delivered to our mind to interpret and process the truth‚ which simply means the fact and reality. The senses of a knower include sight‚ smell‚ taste‚ touch and hearing. To find the truth through sense perception‚ knower has to compare his sense perception with his pre-existing knowledge that
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When Should We Trust Our Senses to Give Us the Truth? Sight‚ smell‚ sound‚ taste‚ and touch make up the five senses that we have all become very familiar with. We have been able to depend on your senses for years. The question I pose is; when can we trust our senses to give us the truth? An account of what “true” means does not have to tell us what is true‚ nor tell us how we could find out what is true‚ therefore we must wonder if our senses can give us the truth. It is first important to
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