Why does everything around us seem to fit? A cat is a cat, a zebra is a zebra.?

Question

What is the effect that seems to correctly fit the context of our minds eye. What we call things and name them seem to fit in ever culture.

Answer 1

Traditional teachings. It makes sense to you only because it was taught to you. If you grew up calling a cat a carrot..to you it would make sense and be true.

You only believe what you have been taught to be true

Answer 2

I completly agree with the first two answers. To quote Shakespeare, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." If we were taught from the point of birth that a rose, or a zebra, was any other name, they would still be what they are. The exact same physical and chemical composition, just another name. Besides, here is my question, who decided on the names for what things are called? Who said, "This should be called a Zebra, and this a Cat, and this a Rose.", that is what I want to know. If those people hadn't named objects what we know them to be called today, a rose could be called a cat! It is definitly all in what has been drilled into our brains from childhood.

Answer 3

I think what you are trying to say, is there are general identifications for species, a human ability, that allows humans to perceive black cats, white cats, big cats, small cats, lions, tigers and bobcats, etc., as conceivably having a universal similarity 'cattiness' that all humans, disspite cultural and racial differences, have as a universal identification ability, the ability to identify a species essential nature.

A rose is this rose referenced using any name.

Apparently humans can not apply this ability to other humans consistently.


http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/bublitz.htm

"Nature engenders nature, and nature only, in its reproduction and in its life. The rose brings forth more roses, never anything ‘unnatural’ or ‘unrose-like’. The human being creates humanity, but with this difference: what is human can at the same time be either ‘human’ or ‘inhuman’. The results of human action range from creations which fill our hearts and souls with lasting strength and delight, to crimes whose shame no atonement can wipe off the face of the earth."

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/bublitz.htm

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 4

I know someone who named their cat Zebra

Answer 5

I agree with Joycee. If you were taught all your life to believe a zebra was a cat, you would know that to be true. We all perceive things to be what they are because of our knowledge. What is known to us is true to us.
Same goes with morals...a lot has to do with what we are taught by our parents, teachers and others who we perceive as respected and superior to us. It's what keeps us civilized.

Answer 6

another question like this and this will become'fit'
simply put, trained from the begining with no real changes everything is a type of fixed problem with the same type of limits and barriers it all is a big ball with us living it it. The Hemoriod one a few up is good!!

Answer 7

Not all the time. For instance...

If space is considered part of the Hemisphere, why isn't an asteroid called a hemorrhoid.

And why isn't a hemorrhoid called an asteroid?

Answer 8

... but what really fries my noodle... if we didn't all think the zebra was a zebra because we were told that and believe that and remembered that... what would the zebra be?