Ok, so I read to 2.7 of this http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sense-data/.
The person who wrote this had very similar thoughts as I do, but on a much greater degree. I only talked about colors perception varying between people, but the author of this passage said that shapes, perspective, color, etc. perception also varied between people. Even the part about color is different. He said that an object doesn't actually have color. It's the light that has color.
I find his point of view extremely unbelievable. The only part that is believable is the color perception. I don't agree with the "nothing has a color" point either. If nothing had a color, then how does the light choose what color the object is going to be? It would probably keep changing colors if it had no absolute color. Also the shape perception is impossible too. If a person saw a rectangular prism, but it was really a sphere, then the person would have been able to tell be feeling it. There would be no angles. The depth perception theory has very little flaws and is pretty believable. If the person sees depth a certain way, then everything would be like that and it would be a perfect world. I did not understand the part about hallucination. It's easy to see what the author means for the time gap theory, but it is obviously not true. Everyone only sees the light of objects. So if we see the light of a distant star that just died, we are technically still seeing the star. Double vision is caused because we have two eyes. I really don't agree with sense-data.
Alright then - You mind if I come over tomorrow around 11? I'll give you a call around 10 to confirm. We'll talk about sense-data tomorrow if you want.
ReplyDeleteThis is very basic contemporary philosophy - you have the right ideas in mind - you just need to express them more clearly. I can see what you mean, but they need to be more organized.
For now, your assignment for tomorrow is to write a persuasive argument about something that's going on in the world. Politics, the environment, debate topics, it doesn't really matter - but it has to be in depth. Pick a side, pick two points that support your position, and develop these points fully.