Sense and Sensibility

As Plato and Bacon establish their claims, about the infatuation of human nature to perceive everything and believe anything that is solely based on our senses has led to the barriers such as the wall or the idols blocking our search for the true source of knowledge. By establishing the senses as a natural standard for evaluating “true” knowledge, true knowledge can never be comprehended because it extends beyond a physical realm as emphasized in Plato’s essay as well as…

customers’ five senses by utilizing the techniques of atmospherics, in order to push customers to spend their money impulsively and emotionally; therefore, businesses can make more profit. According to what Douglas Rushkoff argues in his book, Coercion, the floor plan, temperature, lighting, sounds, smells, and other elements are all designed to create a “consuming atmosphere”; coercive atmospherics works in a way that does not acknowledge us as humans, but rather as brains with five senses. In…

Always Trust Your Gut Instinct One of my most passionate beliefs is, “trust your gut.” Let your intuition (or as some of us call it, “our sixth sense”) guide you. If the thought of doing something does not feel right, don’t do it. As I grew older, it became more and more clear to me that the internal feeling I had about something seemed to always be right. This was not something I learned from any person of religious aspect in life. This is something I learned though experience (kicking myself…

Thank you for your telephone call. You were concerned on the subject of friends in the Quran. Unfortunately, we had confusion in our discussions and left the matter unresolved. I am very sad that I have failed to deliver my explanation, but I am compelled to explain my views now and hope this will enlighten you. You have exercised a verse from the Quran to your Muslim brother, concerning non-Muslim friend. But this exercise has placed you with consequence, by incurring enemy and ruined…

by their senses when a food looks unappealing. It’s almost like having a stuffy nose can make food seem more bland or unenjoyable, or like a certain appearance of a food can influence the way one perceives its taste. This actually does occur, because our senses do in fact influence one another. Smell and taste are both identified by a chemical sensation system, with smell being processed by the olfactory cells in the brain, and taste processed by gustatory cells in the brain. Other senses also…

in the sense of ignorance and love. There is some what of an old saying that love is blind; I believe that love can be blind. Being blind to love is in the state of which you are in love but don’t even know it. It’s like being an amazing singer and not even noticing it. Not noticing until someone tells you how amazing you are at singing and they wish they could sing that well. These are the types of things that make a person blind. It can be taken into a deeper sense of being. The five senses…

Question 1: The window of opportunity to capture the attention of a consumer and sustain it long enough to send the “intended” message via social media online is a great challenge most marketers face today. It is how marketers use stimuli or a combination of stimuli to differentiate themselves and stand out from the competition. The stimuli marketers use to help cut through noise and convey their message comprises of touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing. It is a combination of the…

through the way we think, act, judge, and more. They determine the way we discover, interpret and apply knowledge. We create concepts by labeling or classifying our experiences or objects into classes. Concept formation is a process where we try to make sense of the world in which we exist.This classification can happen based on multiple ways, namely, observation, past experiences, experimentation,…

created the Cartesian plane and is the author of “Meditations.” In “Meditations,” he mentioned his goal was to want certain knowledge to be firm and lasting, or undoubtable as he explained there are already many things that are deceiving us such as sense data (e.g. optical illusions) and dreams. Thus, he suggested that everyone should doubt old beliefs, old habits, seemingly obvious truths such as 2+3=5, and anything that has deceived people once by doubting the foundational beliefs and by…

Senses are a vital necessity in human life. Senses consist of sight, sounds, smell, tastes, and texture. A main function of the senses is to maintain homeostasis. There are two senses; general and special. “General senses are those with receptors widely distributed throughout the body, including skin, various organs and joints” ( ,Pg. 444). “Special senses have more specialized receptors and are confined to structure in the head, such as eyes and ears”( ,Pg.444). Over time, scientists…