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"In order to find out how things really are, one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world." Discuss and evaluate this claim.
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Topic 7 "In order to find out how things really are, one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world." Discuss and evaluate this claim. The history of human thought has been dominated by two fundamental questions: "What is the nature of whatever it is that exits?" and "How, if at all, can we know?" (Magee 1998 pp.7-8) The claim made in the topic offers a framework of sorts within which those two questions may be explored. The topic states that to know the true nature of things, understanding what affects one's perception of those things is absolutely necessary. Central to the topic is the assertion that there is an objective reality, an order of existence that is somehow identifiable as "how things really are". In addition, there is a concern with the mechanics of perception, the process through which we come to apprehend this objective reality and the...
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