• TOK: Sir Arthur Eddington noted that the world is "a strange compound of external nature, mental imagery and inherited prejudice." How accurate a description is this of everyday experience?

     

    Essays1 Philisophy

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Published: 30.11.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'TOK: Sir Arthur Eddington noted that the world is "a strange compound of externa', 1.
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I think Arthur Eddington's notion of an ordinary view of the world is very accurate because when I open my eyes, what I can see is also external nature, mental imagery and inherited prejudice. For example, when it is time to eat something, I initially see the food (external nature), I am going to eat and then I decide whether I am going to eat it or not by using my taste, which is perception. For eating food, I am not sure that if we use mental imagery or not. We probably use it for imagining the taste by smelling the food. Therefore, I think Arthur Eddington's notion of an ordinary view o…

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