Perceptual Illusions
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Seeing & Believing
Theories of Reality
TOK Review
100
Can be defined as the awareness of things through our five senses
What is Perception?
100
Word beginning with "E" that influences how we see things?
What are Expectations?
100
By using a "second" one of these we can help distinguish appearence from reality
What is "a sense" (seeing , hearing etc)
100
Theory of reality that the way we perceive the world is the way the world is.
What is Common-sense realism?
100
When we receive "second hand" information without any critical appraisal we can fall into this philisophical error
What is "Authority Worship?"
200
The theory that all knowledge is eventually based on perceptual experience
What is Empiricism?
200
Many of the interpretations we routinely make about the world happen at this level
What is unconscious?
200
Something that "fits in" with your with your overall experience with the world. (Hint. A second way of distinguishing appearence from reality)
What is Coherence?
200
The theory of realism that says the world exists as an independent reality very different to the way you perceive it.
What is Scientific Realism?
200
Language, Perception, Reason, and ________can all be described as "ways of knowing"
What is Emotion?
300
According to this, perception is a passive and relatively straight forward process.
What is Common Sense Realism?
300
The condition whereby someone loses the ability to interpret what they see
What is Visual Agnosia?
300
The "third" criteria we learned that distingishes apperarence from reality. (Hint. Two Words)
What is independent testimony?
300
Theory of Reality where all knowledge must ultimately be based on experience.
What is Phenominalism?
300
Word describing a lack of belief in absolute truth
What is Relativism?
400
Perception is thought to be needing these two distinct elements
What is sensation & interpretation?
400
Word beginning with S that is one reason for being cautious about what our senses tell us about perception.
What is selective?
400
Phenommenalism can be described this way
What is "To Be is to be peceived"
400
Justified True Belief
What is Knowledge?
500
The way we see something depends partly on this?
What is Context
500
Two things that shape and color our perceptions
What are feelings and emotion?
500
The Way of Knowing we studied after "Perception"
What is Language?
500
"Atoms in the void" can be said to desribe this theory of realism?
What is Scientific Realism?
500
Saying one thing in order to mean another
What is "irony"