Theme 1:Learning summary

    From the “Critique of Pure Reason” of Kent and Socrates’ argument that “knowledge is perception”,I probed something to do with the nature of knowledge and how the the apriori form is determined authentic so that I could have the deeper understanding about the science research and related methods for academic uses.

   
    I referred to some historical and theoretical materials for a good understanding of kent’s theory,hence,I checked the transcendental idealism and tried to know what kind of situation could be interpret a prior.Furthermore,I continued to learning about the “Empiricism” and “Rationalism” to clear the western philosophical system from the superficial and systematic ways.

    In the lecture and seminar,we assumed a infant in a specific living environment who never accepted the edification with intelligence of humans.Then we discussed what kind of creature he would be. The preliminary conclusion is that he might be have the cognition with his own way to live as unique form with others. Because we all have our own “world” ,maybe it is incomprehensible to consider the world from the outside of us.Kent argues that “perception without conception is blind”.For the baby we assumed before,probably,he do not have any conceptions,but I don’t think he is blind.Because  these conceptions we represent here are in our world.

    There is a question I mentioned in the end of the prior blog.I think after the weekly study,it inspires me about the clue to figure them out in some degree.The first is that “are the objects and I the mirrors of the world in deed ?” Professor said”our world is always our world”.The world might just exist in our mind because of our limited cognition or access to perceive the world.To say simply,we could only find the specific area of the world in our ways though the kind of reflection like the mirror to face up the outside changes.In some degree, We are creating things for our worlds as we need because we see the shape of it meantime give these things meaning to constitute the community which make our life easier and advanced on the presupposition of our certain cognition. 

    There is a sample discussion I red before that assumes some fishes in a round fishbowl They will see the curvilinear motion which is just kind of linear motion we can see without any external forces.However,which view about the phenomenon is more authentic?If these fishes were talented enough as humans.Probably they could conclude something concerned with their own experiences even sciences which are obviously absurd to us.Nevertheless,who knows that there is another immense and invisible fishbowl around us or not.