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When should we trust our senses to give us truth?
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... When should we trust our senses to give us truth? The pursuance of absolute truth is an inexhaustible journey that leads to never-before experienced realms. The end of this road could never be reached and the best a man can hope for is a few steps in the right direction. To determine what the truth is and what it is not, a heavy reliability is placed upon the summation of what we identify from our senses. This is the standard approach that we as humans take but, it is not necessarily the correct one. Many problems exist in establishing the truth based on our senses and thus they can rarely be fully trusted. Sense is scientifically defined as "a faculty by which outside stimuli are perceived"1 and by conventional classification human beings have five senses being the sense of hearing, sight, taste, touch, and smell. However, there are actually more
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