The Pros And Cons Of Pigeonholing

Have you ever thought you heard something, but there was nothing there? Have you ever thought you saw someone in the corner of your eye, and when you looked there was no person there? When we look down from a high building on people, do they appear small like ants? Aren't there thousands of occasions when we do misperceive? What is reality and perception? Mainstream science describes reality as "the state of things as they actually exist". So reality is simply: everything we observe. Perception is the process by which organisms interpret and organize sensation to produce a meaningful experience of the world (sapdesignguild.org np). I believe people should base some decisions

Do you think perception is reality? I do not think perception is reality. A lot of people perceive things that are not reality. Almost everyone sometimes perceives different things. Everyone has their own way of perceiving things and there are a lot of people in the world.

Jim Baggott goes further in declaring reality to be a metaphysical concept and not measurable by the confines of science. In fact, reality can be manipulated by the human mind (Trigg 2015). Even Socrates and Aristotle had some understanding of this notion and took nothing in their physical world for granted when it came to trying to understand the nature of self to the physical. However rudimentary in their processes, as it were in their time, they still looked for explanations beyond the confines of their scientific

How does one not know if there is another aspect of catergorie that exist that we don't know as well as how do we know that our reality is a reality?

The first type of reality, objective reality, is the world around us and how it works. It just is. The second type, subjective,

Growing up, I defied pigeonholing. I was one of two accelerated students in my grade, a two-to-three sport athlete who started as a sophomore in soccer and basketball, a stagehand for the theater club, part of student council and class president, a member of the math team, and that’s just to start. I hung out with the nerds, the jocks, the theater geeks, but the group I enjoyed my time the most with were kids who my teachers labeled as “troubled.” I defied pigeonholing, but as they say, “You are judged by the company you keep.” But what I came to realize was that, unlike everyone else in high school, these so-called “troubled” kids were usually labeled because of their families’ troubles- not their own.

Perception is the way in which we view reality, ourselves, others and the world around us. The reality is the real state of things. In fact, it is how things are, whether we perceive them to be or not. Perceptions are based on experience and then experience leads to belief. Most feel their beliefs are true, however, all they have is their perception. Perception comes from how they choose to describe their experiences, or how they have been taught to understand them. Truth does not always come from experience; it comes from facts and

Trying to narrow down a topic to write about is hard for me, I’m unable to decide on a topic like others can because I tend to overthink things especially when the most important

I picked the topic about ‘abstinence only’ programs. In my posting, I talked about educating youth and equipping them with the skills and tools to make healthy choices regarding sex and relationships. This is a more effective strategy than avoiding the topic altogether and telling them not to have sex.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy “to be objectively valid it must be a representation of an objective feature of reality, that is, a feature whose existence and nature is independent of how it is perceived” (Pereboom). This meaning that the object remains the same regardless of how it is perceived by people. This reminds me of what Descartes said on objects having to be clear and distinct, which means objects had to be understandable and unique in themselves, apart, or different. I agree with this because even though we can perceive objects differently, it’s not the object that is changing, but our eyes and minds that change the image of the object we receive. For example if my friend and both go see a movie, we will both see it from different angles. But just because we both have different interpretations of it, it doesn’t mean that the movie itself has changed at all. We talked about in class how Kant thought that we all have an apriori (pre- existing before an experience) framework that our experiences mold to, much like jello poured into a container. The framework we have is time and space that gives shape to

What is real, what is not, how can I really know the world around me? These are simple questions that philosophers have pondered on for hundreds of years. This type of questioning falls under the topic of metaphysics which deals with two broad questions of what is there and what is it like? Philosophers that discuss metaphysics question what we perceive in this world and attempt to clarify the sensations that we feel. Plato a renowned philosopher and student to Socrates had his own theories when it came to metaphysics. Plato believed that the world we perceive is a mere copy of an even greater reality that can only be unlocked by ideas and not material

The topic I chose was neglectful parenting. My reasoning for choosing this topic is because I feel like too many parents today have fallen into this type of parenting style. The development of children is greatly being affected by this parenting style and the effects could last all of the children's’ lives. Since my ideal career is to do something in the matters of helping children, researching and learning more about this topic could potentially help me understand this issue and how it affects children. In my career, I could use this information to explain why a child has developed into certain bad behaviors and then a strategy could be found to help the child break the behavior. Not only is the topic important to me because it relates to the career I wish to pursue, but also because I seen the effects of neglectful parenting on several children who I adore and by learning more about this issue, I could be able to help them.

When considering mechanisms and processes to write a proposal about, the one idea that came to my mind was ENGL 313, Rhetorical Website Design. As a former student in that course, who was uninformed the class involved coding, I wanted to make the subject easier for future students. I chose to stick with the topic for the technical description because I genuinely think the small recommendations I offered will help students tremendously. I wanted to make the experience better so participants can be enthusiastic about web design. I wrote with my perspective in mind, reflecting how I would have benefited from

through our senses is actually an accurate interpretation of reality. After we’ve established that our senses aren’t

perception and reality - perception being the evident meaning of each symbol and reality, being