Making sense

validity of the senses through unique perception and countering the dream argument with a more practical approach to the knowledge of our existence. John Locke, in An Essay Concerning Understanding, establishes the theory of “tabula rasa” (blank slate) as a picture for the mind. According to this theory, the mind can be supposed as “white paper, void of all characters” and ready to be filled with ideas that are realized through experience. Locke argues that humans are born with inherent senses, but not

understand how other animals think, feel and operate in their own worlds – possibly with senses that most of us don’t even know we have. Using this approach, developed by biologist Gordon Burghardt, a scientist or layperson combines scientific knowledge, including behavior studies of the animal and its habit, with a perceptual shift. In a sense, he or she steps into the animal’s world, tries to sense it as it might sense the world, to walk in its shoes – or, as Burghardt put it, wear the snake’s skin. Burghardt

way of mental deconstruction and evaluation of all that he had previously considered true, Descartes is left with only the elements that he is able to ascertain are ‘certain and indubitable’ . He first asserts our apparent inability to distrust our senses in distinguishing reality from illusion. This process forms the foundations from which he may

in existence. This includes ideologies such as motion, God, gravity, solar radiation, and our physical environment as whole. The natural world is not only made up of things that our senses can detect, such as touch and smell, but is also includes things such as God and gravity which are unattainable through the senses. According to Immanuel Kant, the sensible world includes anything that can become known to humans. The sensible world includes things such as time and space. By reviewing the definition

Han Kang incorporated distinctive senses that cause characters to act a certain way, which appeals to readers’ emotion and consciousness. The different narration emphasizes Yeong-hye’s determination to become a vegetarian, which has become a serious problem to her health and the health of those around her. Han Kang’s emphasis on the senses, such

can be influenced. MacDorman & Cattopadhyay (2016) suggests that eeriness of the uncanny valley is not because of how eerie they look. Rather, it depends on how human-like they are. Then, I will describe visual expertise. Visual expertise in this sense refers to our ability to identify faces and other objects that we have experience in perceiving. That experience is used to make top-down assumptions about what faces and their features should look like. Harel (2016) looks at visual expertise, where

Thank you all for taking the time to come tonight. Before we start I would like you all to use half of your notes page to write down one word that describes how you have been feeling lately. You may accompany this with a picture if you wish. Now put those to the side, as we will need them a little later on. We are going to start today’s PD a little differently. I want you all to have a go at the colouring sheets that are in front of you. We are going to just do this for 5minutes. During this

something?¨ Well people can know something through three ways: 1.)experiential/empirical 2.)cognitive/rational and 3.)constructed/creational. With experiential a person can know something because they have experienced it, basically through the five senses. With cognitive one knows something because it has been thought through, argued, or rationalized. With constructed a person knows something because they created it and it may be subjective instead of objective and it may be based on practice or awareness

Both Plato and Aristotle are among the most influential philosophers in the history. Socrates was another famous philosopher who greatly influenced Plato. Plato was the pupil of Socrates and later Plato became the teacher of Aristotle. Although Aristotle followed his teachings for a long time, he found many questionable facts in his teachings and later on became a great critic of Plato’s teachings. Since Aristotle found faults in Plato, hence their work is easily comparable as it is based on the

look into the relationship concerning our senses and reality. There is one similarity between all three works that is clear: their writers are skeptical that the real world that surrounds could just be a product of our faulty senses. Can we really rely on them to justify whether or not what we are perceiving is real? “All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. I observed, however, that these sometimes