KNOWLEDGE ISSUE HOW CAN WE TRUST OUR SENSES? 1. CAN WE RELY ON PERCEPTION? 2. DEFINITIONS AND LOGICAL STRUCTURE: 3.

Define the Senses The Faculties with which we perceive the external world. Then Perception becomes the ability to sense through the senses, if we take a literalist interpretation and connect the two definitions. It really goes into how we interpret the senses and, by extension, how we interpret the external world. 4. Define Perception Dictionary Definition. Connect the two: - Perception is the interpretation that our brain makes from the senses. 5. Why is it important for our knowledge issue? - Perception is really important to our daily life and our image of the world around us as our senses are the only method from which we receive information, therefore, it is crucial to our knowledge and understanding. 6. Descartes and his idea Descartes was a 17th century French philosopher. He studied the reliability of perception, and came to the conclusion that our senses could not always be relied upon and needed to be subjected to skepticism. Move on to our examples: Connect it to the Knowledge Issue However, he underlined the fact that that the senses, and our perception of them, we possess are Central to understanding the world. He referred to this as the mind-body problem. The idea was that Descartes tried to disconnect the faculty of the mind from the faculty of the body. This is why I think, therefore I am is significant. Because our senses are so unreliable, yet central, when concerning their interpretation of the world around us, we need to separate our mind from the world around us. 7.