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Essay on The Perception of the Perception

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The Perception of the Perception The subjective nature of perception is an inborn characteristic humanity. However, humans found the ability to still classify knowledge under two categories, objective and subjective. Knowledge in the subjective sense, or subjective knowledge for short, is the individual knowledge that each person gains through personal experiences. Artists often try to portray a scene that has an emotional and psychological effect on the viewer, by drawing on their own experiences and thoughts. However, scientists are interested in developing the former type of knowledge, knowledge in the objective sense. Objective knowledge is subjective knowledge which has passed through …show more content…

Sir Karl outlined this process in a tetradic schema illustrated below: P1 à TT à EE à P2 In this process, P1 is the original problem, practical or theoretical, TT is the tentative theory that is offered to solve the problem, EE is the “error elimination” where it is critically tested, and finally P2 is the problems that are left over and those which are created by this process. The problems that scientists face are in the tentative theory stage. In this stage, complications arise when the original problem is theoretical. To provide some tentative solution to the problem the scientist must first make observations formulate a hypothesis, test it under controlled conditions, evaluate whether the tests adheres to the hypothesis, if it does not, then the hypothesis is reformed and the process is repeated, however if it does hold true for that situation, then the scientist may put it forth for critical evaluation by his peers. More often than not, the theory never passes the critical evaluation, thus P2 is essentially P1. Now the question is, ‘How does all this relate to the subjective nature of perception’, and the answer is quite simple. Subjective knowledge, which was mentioned before, are personal experiences, thus are biased, since they are formed through the perception of the world, which has a subjective nature. Since the knowledge has the subjective nature to it, it

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