COMM 2102 Study Guide - Fetus, Walter J. Ong, René Descartes
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How we come to know and understand the world: There are two ways in which we understand the world: knowledge: independent from our experience. (apriori, experience: is the knowledge we gain through experience. (a posteriori) Immanuel kant: he suggested that what we know about an object comes through a combination of our knowledge of the object itself, but our particular knowledge about that object is through our experience. Kant: noumena are objects we can"t understand through experience. Phenomena: stuff that we become aware of through experience. Natural objects must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur edmund. Pure phenomenology, its method, and its field of investigation . We make sense of the world through our experience, so if we focus on phenomenology it is no surprise to believe that we understand the world through our senses. The world is sensuous, it is through our 5 senses in which we understand the world.