In Class outline

“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing.

▼ ❑ Perception
▼ ❑ Problems of Perception
▼ ❑ Biological limits
• ❑ senses only extend so far
▼ ❑ Bauby
▼ ❑ biological limits were either altered or removed outright
• ❑ Bauby was forced to change his perception of the world
▼ ❑ Memory
▼ ❑ Degradation
▼ ❑ Roswell Memory Failure
• ❑ severe memory degradation after only one month
▼ ❑ Harding Effect
▼ ❑ Looks vs. Qualifications
▼ ❑ Nixon vs. Kennedy debates
• ❑ People who saw the debate thought Kennedy did better; people who heard it thought Nixon did better
▼ ❑ Warren G. Harding election
• ❑ Harding was tall and handsome, but unqualified.
▼ ❑ Reason
▼ ❑ Fallacies
▼ ❑ act as the rules as to how we interpret the outside signals
▼ ❑ False Dilema
• ❑ only two options exist: Enron; either a good employee or a bad one
▼ ❑ Circular reasoning
• ❑ self supporting argument; Jesus is the son of god, the bible said so; bible never wrong because jesus is the son of god.
• ❑ must be valid, but not necessarily true