Risk perception

Sensation and perception work together in developing an interpretation of a stimulus to assign meaning to a particular experience or object (Grivas, Down & Carter 1996); however, they are still two individual concepts. Sensation is the passive process of gathering information via any of the five human senses, so that it can be perceived meaningfully (Clause 2015). Perception is the process in which important information gathered by the sensory system is selected and interpreted, so that a…

especially in his First Meditation, condemns the ability of sensation to provide information about the natural world and humans’ surroundings. Although he believes that humans must trust their senses to understand the obvious, he believes that not all perceptions can be trusted as bodily senses can be deceptive to internal understanding. However, a problem arises: how can one contemplate everything that is perceived around them as false? Certainly, unknown truths must reside in experiences not…

idea of reality vs. illusion. Through the narrator’s interpretation of the setting, the characters’ and their relationship it makes an important notation towards the theme. Altogether, “A Perfect Circle” is a story that suggests how an individual’s perception of reality can be thwarted due to illusions which can lead to delusions and heartbreak. The story implies how certain events in life can force our grasp on reality to shift and cause us to escape from our surroundings by producing…

view on the senses is perception. It creates a much bigger picture on how we view our five sense. The way that we perceive why we do what we do is perspective. All these objectives go with what we do in our everyday lives. As a class we all experienced these senses as we went to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and experienced the psychology book. When walking around you use one of your sense, Vision. The way we look at the pictures that were hanging on the walls; was perception. It was the way we…

The third argument against Descartes’ successful refutation is that he admits throughout his meditations that he can in fact be deceived, which means there is no way for him to refute the first meditation in and of itself as explained by the dream argument. “From these considerations it is utterly apparent that, notwithstanding the immense goodness of God, the nature of man, insofar as it is composed of mind and body, cannot help being sometimes mistaken” (140). This statement recognizes that he…

Analysis: The preceding narrative is from a time in my life not too long ago. It reminds me of Walker Percy’s essay The Loss of the Creature in the sense that things are not always as they appear to be. Percy’s thesis is one mustn’t blindly follow what we are taught, but rather, one must discover for himself what is genuine and true. My personal story, however, is slightly different than those of others in the fact that I’ve been battling addiction since the age of 15, and cannot relate much to…

In Plato's, The Republic, Book X, he indicates how the universe of experience is flawed, using imitation and deception and how situating ourselves toward the domain of forms prompts an entire comprehension. Plato viewed art as an imitation of nature or human life and actions. He suggests that anyone can imitate through a use of a mirror, which is reflective. However, what such a person creates is an appearance; it isn't truly there. This, he concludes, is what a painter does. Similarly, a…

Cave, the steps towards discovering the real truth are discussed, and these concepts are present in William Shakespeare’s Othello. The characters created by Shakespeare in Othello struggle to understand the real truth while Iago manipulates their perception the truth with relative ease. Thus, the roles of truth in Othello are as a tool that is manipulated and distorted, with false truths also manifesting themselves in stereotypes,…

In his “Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” John Locke fights tirelessly to disprove the existence of innate ideas, and instead rallies for the claim that ideas originate from experience. In one argument in particular, Locke elaborates on this by introducing the terms “sensation” and “reflection,” which he defines as two processes that supposedly act as the sources for each idea in the human mind. In a tone which exudes confidence, Locke boldly challenges his reader to locate one idea in…

“Reasoning is refuted by experience.” (pg. 33) We, as humans, often have certain ideas or concepts about things due to empirical or abstract logic. Empirical logic is through experience. For example, we know what a dog is because we have seen and been introduced to a dog before. Abstract logic is without tangible experience. Numbers are an example of abstract logic. Numbers can be represented by the written “2”, two straws, or two cars. According to Webster Dictionary, experience is often…