Keith Wilson's Perception And Reality By Keith Wilson

What is sense perception? Everything we perceive in our senses can be misleading and an illusion. In the article “Perception and Reality” by Keith Wilson (see Article 1), the author goes over some of the aspects of how our perception deceives us to believe in things that aren’t there to begin with. For example are colors real? Well that is relevantly dependent on what is considered real, because real again is a perception of a single individual collecting information and making “sense” out of it. A color being real or not is dependent on how we see it through our eyes, we can 't say that my blue is the same as your blue. We can 't know for sure if what we are seeing for ourselves, is the same as what the person that views that same thing sees

Colors of cretin things can appear different at some situations. For example, blood as we know it is red, that color that you see through your eyes of the blood in our veins is “red” but underwater, at 30 feet underneath the surface your blood turns, or rather appears green due to the light bouncing off of it is much less than it is at the surface as mentioned in the article “Did you know that your blood is green underwater?” by Fun Facts (see Article 2). These examples got me interested from the class discussions we had and how the philosophers viewed sense perception and the kind of thought they had of

For example, sense perception for the processes of Aristotle’s term “abstraction” plays an important role. This was the argument against Plato’s theory of “recollection” from the book “Aristotle Introductory Reading” by Terence Irwin (see Book 2). Aristotle argued that what we perceive in our senses and collect into what we learn and understand is abstraction. The knowledge of everything we know does not come from the soul, which contains unlimited amount of information as Plato’s theory of recollection suggests, but its actually a process called abstraction. The process of collection and storing information through our senses. But the problem can be that people misunderstand or misuse what their senses perceive and draw a wrong understanding from the information they 've gathered, which leads to an illusion rather than understanding. For example, we grow prejudice towards certain things and likes towards others by simple view of it. If we dislike a color, or a shape we may not further investigate it, or even ignore it, gathering the information and understanding it wrongfully just because of how we felt about it. Same can be said about liking something that we may sometimes over exaggerate and overprice, just because we like it that much even though it does not possess that much of what we would want it to.