Perception Post
"Doubt is the key to knowledge” (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in Perception?


1. This is very true in perception because when one doubts something, he or she has an open mind to acquire knowledge about that subject. And in order to acquire this knowledge the person will use their senses to perceive what is around them and then to interpret, and analyze what they have perceived. When you are doubting something, you are unsure of what you have learned or of what someone has told you and in order to believe it and consider it knowledge you must experience it or perceive it.

2. For example if the culture in which you live in emphasizes religion and believing in God, you may doubt his existence and wonder if everything that is said in the Bible is true. But if you perceive a miracle for yourself like if you pray to God and ask him for something like health and he gives you what you asked for you will stop doubting it because you’ve experienced it.


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3. If the teacher assigns you a lab in chemistry and she is telling you that by mixing two liquid substances you will make a new solid substance you may wonder how that is possible and you may doubt if it is true. But if you actually conduct the experiment for yourself and verify that by combining the two liquid substances you do form a solid substance, then you will no longer doubt the results of the lab because you have observed it.


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4. When I was very young I didn’t believe that trees and flowers came from seeds. It seemed impossible to think that something so big and colorful came from something so small and plain. I really doubted if this was true but then my mom gave me a pot with soil and she showed me how to plant the seed and sometime after a flower grew in the pot. Since I had planted the seed, watched the plant grow and finally seen the flower I stopped doubting it and I had acquired knowledge through perception.


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