Democritus argued that if seeing is dependent on our psychological and physiological condition, there are no colours in things, since colours exist by virtue of our faculties of perception. The Kanizsa triangle supports his argument. There is no triangle overlapping the entire image, but it appears to us that there is one. So the existence …
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What is the relation between consciousness and reality?
One approach is to say that reality causes us to have perceptions of how reality is like. So, the apple causes us to have a perception of the apple. We see the appearance of the apple- its red skin, its round shape. The appearance of an apple is what allows us to infer the apple. …
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What is human nature?
What differentiates us humans from animals? What motivates or what is the driving force for us as human beings? Are humans essentially thinking or intellectual beings? Is a sense of self what makes us human? In our Focus Inquiry, we tended towards the idea that human beings are naturally desiring- they desire to create buildings, …
What is?
‘What is’ is a question that may be re-phrased as ‘what is there?’ But we may equally ask the question, what is ‘is’? It is the second question that I will address in this article. ‘Is’ can be described in terms of three associations. ‘is’ is associated with being, with identity, and with existence. I …
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