I have to come up with a thesis and write a paragraph or two on what I think about this. Any ideas?
2007-09-15 16:01:24 · 9 answers · asked by Rinny 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No, I'm not in college. I'm a high school senior in Honors Philosophy.
2007-09-15 16:17:32 · update #1
Open your mouth.
What do you taste?
That is what the world is made of.
Listen.
What do you hear?
That is what the world is made of.
Touch something near you.
What do you feel?
That is what the world is made of.
Look around.
What do you see?
That is what the world is made of.
Take a sniff.
What do you smell?
That is what the world is made of.
Now, all of these things depend on where you are when you answer these questions.
Therefore, your perception of the world, is based on your generalized status in life.
2007-09-15 16:07:27 · answer #1 · answered by sofia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean, what is it made of revealed by the senses unaided by even a reading glass? All we know about the world is revealed by our senses but we use various aids to augment them like microscopes, telescopes various electric and electronic probes etc. The ancient Greeks did not have aids and they concluded the universe was made of, Earth, Air, Fire and Water plus a fifth element they
called "Quintessence" with a rather spiritual nature.
Now Science thinks everything is made of Matter (in 100 or so odd elements) and energy and that matter is just condensed energy (Energy = Mass x c^2). Consider the elements as being in Earth, Air and Water and Fire as energy. Science however is constrained to consider nothing that is supernatural so it doesn't consider any divine revelations of knowledge so they have missed Quintessence until recently. Its existence (as dark energy) has recently been seriously reconsidered by Cosmologists and Physicists. All these facts have been revealed by various tools that augment our senses.
Good luck in your thesis, good health, peace and love!
2007-09-15 17:25:00 · answer #2 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your last statement can be after you use your senses to describe the world according to your sense perception is that the senses are not adequate to actually describe the word because they are limited. You can use this story. (The frog in The well) someone asked a frog in a well "Have you seen the big ocean?" the frog said no is it as big as my well?" They said "No so much bigger." The frog said "Is it 5 times the size of my well." NO much bigger than that." Frog "Is it ten times bigger." and so on. So the problem is we can not really understand thing with our sense perception because we will always fall Short of the senses. Hope this helps. Thanks.
2007-09-15 16:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From my porch the world is mostly made of vineyards and a touch of the Pacific; it's dark with some stars but not the numbers one can see in real country; I can faintly hear cars and I'm finished with dinner, drinking water. You?
2007-09-15 16:08:18 · answer #4 · answered by LK 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the sight of the light of the sun...
the smell of a field of wild flowers...
the touch of brotherhood...
the taste of nature...
the sound of the living...
2007-09-15 16:54:33 · answer #5 · answered by M E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you lack one of your 5 senses, like I do, [my sight], the world should be made up of trillions of reading glasses.
Does that answer your question?
2007-09-15 16:21:32 · answer #6 · answered by birdtennis 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hearing, sight and felling/touch are vibrations. Smell and taste are chemical reactions.
2007-09-15 16:14:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Atoms.
2007-09-15 16:11:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
im sorry, but--
what the hell?!
geez are you in college or something?!?!
2007-09-15 16:08:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋