debate topic ''quality begins with perception''?

Question

quality with perception

Answer 1

I love this kind of questions!
I want to argue 'no', because i think children do not necessarily learn good and bad by perceiving those good or bad things.

Their parents "teach" them, however often not explicitly. Evaluations are instead passed through by emotions and emotional states - which are not "perceived" in the commonsensical meaning of the word, as if a conscious act of mind is required. Thus, one can learn from another how an attitude towards a subject ought to be without knowing the thing itself. Evidently trust is of vital importance here... a child acquires a capability to make similar evaluations as its parent through this bond they share; for the child relies on the parent's good judgment, the child will adopt the parent's evaluational senses.

I really think perception is the wrong word in relation to quality. Quality is not 'out there', it is within. But it is not within me or within you, it is within us - for a large part of us that is - , otherwise it would be impossible to share thoughts - that large part is the part that understands what i am saying here.

Everything has to be evaluated as qualified, as 'intelligible', as 'relevant', as 'important' etc. So it cannot be that subjective. Neither is it objective ('out there'; as i said). It is CONTEXTUAL. For example, i share more evaluational sense with my family than with whoever - we not only 'know' each other well, we intuit each other,... we can predict each other's evaluations and that's why we communicate easily. So quality is amid our sociality, and, in communication (imagined communication or actual communication) quality is a means to make intentional expressions simpler. It travels from from man to man and it rests within an intended meaning.

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Answer 2

Taoists I study relate every thing to the big bang or primordial source, I blend that with Judeo/Christian mysticism to equate that the universe began with the perception of emptiness (void), which encompasses all qualities in a parental way. Although I'm sure many will argue that "the bible doesn't say God WAS the void." Whatever.

So personally, I agree because I feel perception is the quality that is first and foremost. Perception or "attention", which is a term more relative to the whole of time/space.

I try to percieve it mathematically, first there was zero, then a quality of the zero (mysteriously) started to reflect on itself, creating a schism, which is that state of reflective consciousness I call "one" which percieving the emptiness creates another reflection in the zero state because there are then "two" realities, which actually defines "three" realities all parented by the original self-reflective void. These states continue to bouce off each other indefinitely until we get to this completely different (looking) universe. And so on.

It's unwieldy to the human mind, but there is great beauty in its simplicity. Just apply it to your own state of consciousness, first not percieving yourself then percieving your self in an attempt to understand what you see around you, redefining yourself in terms of your environment and your environment in terms of yourself, on and on until you are hallucinating completely psychotic realities.... if you don't stop yourself to go to work.

Wow, I need a job.

To flip the question around again, one cannot know quality without perception. If God is omniscient and omnipresent, then the quality that best defines divinity IS perception.

Which explains the healing power of attention.

Thank you for yours.

Answer 3

Doesn't everything begin with perception?

How you view, interpret and judge are all based on understood principals of what it is and what it is not. "Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses". - St. Thomas. Quality can not exist without perception.

If something is perceived as bad to one and good to another, it does not change the actual thing that is being judged. Even though quality can have different definitions, those definitions began as some form perception.

Answer 4

quality is a relative quantiy.....perception may differ from one human to another......hence there shud be some kind of standardisation......
perception cannot be standerdised....but quality can be stndardised....
''quality begins with perception'' only if quality is standardised in some way.....

Answer 5

A person's perception is their own reality.

Answer 6

PERCEPTIONS ARE IN THE MIND. THEY DEFINE YOUR THOUGHTS.IF YOUR THOUGHTS ARE OF HIGH QUALITY YOU END UP WITH HIGHER CHANCES OF QUALITY IN LIFE.

Answer 7

yes of course.