Perception And Plato’s Theaetetus
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Plato discusses theories of knowledge throughout his famous dialogue, the Theaetetus.
He discusses many different ways of learning and attempts to define knowledge. Plato
does this through a conversation between a few characters: Socrates, the famous
philosopher; Theodorus, an aged friend and ph ....
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.... is “the way things look to us” because even though something might
seem to be one way, it is another. For example, the Muller-Lyer illusion makes people see
two lines of different lengths, while the lines are the same size. This illustrates the fact
that just because you perceive something to be a certain way does not mean that it is true.
Truth and perception do not necessarily coincide. This is also true with belief. When
seeing something that is too far fetched to be rea ....
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