When should we 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
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01/24/10 When should 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
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Topic #2: 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
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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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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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The question advocates that we can from time to time trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge. And generally we presume that it may be possible to know when to trust emotions and that emotions can help us in the acquisition of knowledge. And you may challenge these presumptions. Maybe it is not possible to know when to trust our emotions‚ and maybe our emotions have a limited value in the pursuit of knowledge‚ but to what I aim to analyse is to what extent do our emotions play a role in the
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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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“I Am Bigfoot‚” “The Tablecloth of Turin‚” and “The Chromium Hook‚” describes the concept and the difference between truth and reality‚ and what we choose to believe and not to believe. Credibility is one of the major themes addressed in the stories. It is also emphasized that determining between what reality is and what is not is a very difficult decision. Carlson appears to give the reader the degree of truthfulness; however‚ most of it is in fact not true. In the “Bigfoot Stole my Wife it is not
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Should we always tell the truth? Have you already told a lie to somebody? Everybody has already lied to someone. After that‚ most of the time people have felt guilty or bad if they expressed their own opinion. But sometimes‚ people don’t tell the truth just to avoid hurting others because they act like that for the good of others. However‚ always telling the truth is necessary for us in everyday life in order to feel good about ourselves‚ to be trusted by everybody and to be able to support our
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Should we always tell the truth? Have you already told a lie to somebody? Everybody has already lied to someone. After that‚ most of the time people might have felt guilty. But sometimes people don’t tell the truth to avoid hurting others because they act like that for the good of the others. However‚ always telling the truth is necessary for us in everyday life in order to feel good about ourselves‚ to be trusted by everybody and to be able to support our own opinions. Telling the truth is
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