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Senseless: A False Sense Of Perception

I feel as though I have no choice but to be a skeptic about our ability
to know the world on the sense experience given the information that is being
presented.
Our senses are touching, hearing, smelling and tasting, I believe it is
quite possible that a person could think they see, touch, and smell something
such as a glass of bear but there be no glass of beer present, therefore their
perception of this glass of beer is false. There is a good possibility that
this person is suffering from any of the numerous possible sensations, auditory,
visual or tactile, experienced without external stimulus and caused by mental
derangement, intoxication or fever, in other words this person ...

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affected person seeing things which they perceive to be real .
Hallucinations are only one way by which the visual perception of an object can
be altered there are many more ways by which the visual perception of an object
can be altered; for example consider a square envelope, pay very close attention
to what you see when you look at this object. If the envelope does not move but
you do then your perception of this object will continually change as you move
about and the "square envelope" no longer looks square. Because a square object
such as an envelope can't be square and not square at the same time then the
visual perception of the object must be false.
Another false visual perception would be a mirage, for example when you
drive down a flat stretch of highway on a hot summer day it appears as though
there are patches of water on the road up ahead, as you get closer and closer
to where the water appears to be it disappears. Another example would be
illusions with ...

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Added: 7/15/2006 09:59:00 AM
Category: English
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