The theory of sense perception includes the basis of identifying certain objects that we can see, feel, hear or smell. It looks at how we interpret and understand the things we know and sense.
Definition
- Perception is reality
- Directly detected through sensory organs
- Perceptual relativity (different from each individual)
- Variation among individuals
- Variation in your own body (different food tastes different depending on the time of the day)
- The are mind-independent objects (the chairs don't depend on your existence about them)
- Meditated through the senses
- Artificial stimulus of brain produces "real" sensations
- Effects indistinguishable from reality
- Veil of perception (make you think and see things differently- indirect realism - the veil coming in is being shaped by the brain)
- We don't perceive external objects themselves - We perceive sense and data that are produced in our minds by external things (for example, a bent mirror in a fun house)
- The founder of realism is Bishop Berkeley (the not-so-naive but totally crazy theory of perception)
- "To be is to be perceived or to be perceive"
Does Language Influence our view of the World?
"The idea that the language you speak affects the way that you think sounds sort of obvious, one of those things you just assume. Speak French all day and you'll start thinking stylishly; speak Swedish all the time and start feeling really good about taxation. But what exactly is the relationship between what goes on in your head and the words you use? If, say, the Swedish didn't have a word for taxation (they do; it's beskattning), would they be able to conceive of it?
The principle of linguistic relativity is sometimes called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, after the linguist who made it famous, Benjamin Lee Whorf. Put simply, Whorf believed that language influences thought. In his 1940 essay, Science and Linguistics, influenced by Einsteinian physics, Whorf described his "new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar". His research appeared to show that speakers of different kinds of language were, as a result of those language differences, cognitively different from one another."
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