HPS100H1 Chapter 2: Chapter 2
3 Oct 2016
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General theory about perception involving all our senses, including sight, sound, taste etc. When someone looks at a tree, they receive a visual image of the tree, the sun, apple, etc. If we were to look at a tree, we would have similar visual representations of a tree, sun etc. Our senses provide representations of things in the external world. Has interesting implications, some of these implications directly affect correspondence theories of truth. Important of these implications is that it entails that we"re all isolated from the world there"s no way for us to know if the representations provided by our senses are accurate. How we go around assessing the accuracy of an ordinary representation like a picture or a map is just to compare the real life object with the map/photo. To assess the accuracy of a representation, we need to compare: the representation (i. e. the photograph, with the thing presented (i. e. the thing itself inside the photograph)
