In politics perception is the reality; modern age media onslaught has an ability to bury truth behind a demonic other, a smoke screen that can create a perception more real than the truth itself. What degree of disconnect, in your opinion, does exist between reality and perception in our daily lives, is it perception or reality that dictates your attitude towards society.
How hard do you try to reach the truth before furnishing your bias with a perception about an entity in the society.
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Your inbability to collect the evidence is the reason for your reliance on a concocted perception.
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Some have argued that our perception does not contain the substance of reality. That truth is not fathomed but rather it is sought. The truth about truth is that it exists as a universal, but our perceptions betray it and each of us get but a glimpse of it or it's presence and the fact that we perceive demonstrates that truth exists yet at the same time it is altogether unattainable.
Plato for example argued through his narratives, the star being his own teacher Socrates used to compare wisdom with how much a person realises he doesn't know. Anyone who claims to know truth has deluded himself into that state, with closer examination should realise that he simply knows the symptoms of what must stem from truth. A person who realises this knows more 'truth' than he who claims to be an expert.
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^ agree with you there psyah. this distinction you're drawing between perception and reality, is not a modern invention, and it is to some extent artificial and relies on a preferred status of 'reality' that is better than perception.. perception being somewhat a pejorative and 'reality' being whatever your preferred worldview is. everything is perception. we do not have access to the 'absolute' frame of reference that would allow us to claim anything we know to be 'reality' as oppposed to our perception of it.
Some have argued that our perception does not contain the substance of reality. That truth is not fathomed but rather it is sought. The truth about truth is that it exists as a universal, but our perceptions betray it and each of us get but a glimpse of it or it's presence and the fact that we perceive demonstrates that truth exists yet at the same time it is altogether unattainable.
Plato for example argued through his narratives, the star being his own teacher Socrates used to compare wisdom with how much a person realises he doesn't know. Anyone who claims to know truth has deluded himself into that state, with closer examination should realise that he simply knows the symptoms of what must stem from truth. A person who realises this knows more 'truth' than he who claims to be an expert.
Wise like always Psyah bhai.
A common understanding of the “perception” is sensory awareness of objects of this physical world by us, meaning we can perceive what we can comprehend by way of our senses. This understanding of perception is close to what is known as direct realism, which considers existence of this physical world as something logically independent of human mind, however a derivative of this direct realism theory says that although perception of physical world is sensory yet it is mediated psychologically meaning it is constituted by the combination of the subject's being in a more fundamental psychological state, which is not in itself physical-item perceptive psychologically.
In situations where truth is intangible or immaterial to the sensory perception it must be sought and that is precisely where a psychological mediation becomes imperative to realize and reconcile with it.
Does it mean that we are slave of our ingrained bias; can we accept a truth which is real yet does not appeal to our innate conviction?
^ agree with you there psyah. this distinction you're drawing between perception and reality, is not a modern invention, and it is to some extent artificial and relies on a preferred status of 'reality' that is better than perception.. perception being somewhat a pejorative and 'reality' being whatever your preferred worldview is. everything is perception. we do not have access to the 'absolute' frame of reference that would allow us to claim anything we know to be 'reality' as oppposed to our perception of it.
Good points Ravage.
Your inbability to collect the evidence is the reason for your reliance on a concocted perception.
Our inability might not be intentional; it might be our incapacity to find truth in the thick mist of lies. Should the onus of not trying hard be on an individual who is incapacitated by the lack of resources, or the onus should be on one who is trying to hide the reality?
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I would say 95% of our attitudes are based upon perception. This is even true in fields where "evidence" guides the practice and not perceptions.