According to Descartes, thought includes doubting, understanding, affirming, denying, willing, refusing, and also imagining and sensing. ... The thought that is most related to his argument is sensory perceptions. ... This intellect includes out sensory perceptions. ...
He would question people and ideas over and over until a clear perception of a concept was attained. He approached things analytically and sought clear defined perception. ... According to Socrates, a philosopher should relinquish his sense perceptions when it comes to philosophy because they hinder our ability to seek truth. The Sophists used their opinions and relied on their sense perceptions to help people win arguments and get money. ... For anyone who did not know or did not come into contact with Socrates, the comedy distorted their perception of him. ...
Parmenides maintains that whatever one speaks about or thinks about must in some sense exist. ... Parmenides fails to adequately to explain the correlation between reality, existence and perception. ... Despite what our perception tell us, nothing ever changes in the world. ... Whether or not you agree with Parmenides, the discussion of perception and reality will continue to be on the list of topics that may never be fully explained and understood by mankind. ...
To this, Plato would argue that his perfect rulers must eventually have a time when their sense perception is off and they miscalculate the timing of marriages and births in the city. ... (VI 487 e) It is understood, from the above paragraph, that the philosopher kings go through a period of faulty sense perception, but do all the philosopher kings go through this period at the same time? ... If this were true, how can philosopher kings not notice the huge miscalculations and faulty sense perceptions revealed by their fellow philosopher kings? ...
There must be some previous knowledge of absolute forms before being reminded of them by perception. Through sense perception, it is "that all [humans] perceive through them is striving to reach that which is Equal but falls short of it" (75b ). ...
This is all they know; these shadows are the prisoners" reality. ( Halsted notes October 6, 2003) Plato's calls this common sense. ... (Halsted notes October 6, 2003) The fourth level is Observation, this is when the prisoners are continuing to realize that knowledge outside the cave is "far superior to the perceptions inside the cave" (Halsted notes October 6, 2003) The fifth level, Knowledge, now the prisoners are "acquiring, organizing, and categorizing the physical world in a scientific matter" (Halsted notes October 6, 2003). ...
Throughout my process of researching their ideas versus what I actually have witnessed in my career, I came across a sense of disappointment. ... This perception of thinking and existing is portrayed on television, in music and in the media. ...
