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Plato is reported to have said that the verdict of senses must be viewed with suspicion and skepticism. And indeed a quick run through the senses reveals vividly the problem of perception.
Sense of Sight
-Tends to depend on a number of factors each of which tends to give a different picture of what we see. For example the colour of objects depends on whether we look at the object with the naked eye or coloured glasses
-May also depend on the intensity of the light
Or whether we have normal sight or colour blind
Or whether we the object through the microscope or by the naked eye.
Sense of Touch
-The sense of touch tends to depend on how hard we press the object or alternatively, what part of the body presses the object.
-A philosopher, George Berkley once remarked that water may feel warm to one hand and cool to the other if when you plunge both hands into the same water one hand is warm the other is cool
Sense of Sound
The sense of hearing presents more or less the same kind of problems. For example if one is standing by a railway line and the whistling locomotive rushes past the pitch of the whistle tends to change depending on the proximity of the locomotive.
senses of Smell and Taste
These too are fraught with perceptual difficulties. They tend to influenced by what we have just been eating and smelling. For example, cold may influence the taste of food, tea taken immediately after a pineapple may not taste the same
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