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It is normal that as human, we have our own vision and understanding on certain things.
We sometimes don’t take things as they are as we have our own opinion on particular
things. The way people perceive things is different from each other. The claim we see
and understand things not as they are but as we are clearly shown that different people
have their own view on each aspect of their life. Things here do not solely refer to
objects. Everything that revolves around us can be regarded as ‘things’ such as situation,
people and conflict that always occur. ‘We’ refers to the person that encounters ‘things’
in their life. There are external factors that influence people to have different views and
judgments on each thing. These factors make them to not agree things as they are but as
we are. A person understands what they see in their own ways based on beliefs, culture
and experiences. Reason, emotion, perception and language strengthen the claim that we
see and understand things as we are because these ways of knowing give a big influence
Reason helps us to distinguish between good and bad arguments. It makes us to deny the
absolute truth of certain things. We no longer see things as they are because reason makes
us think rationally based on our own virtue. Each person has different virtues, which is a
characteristic possess by them that causes them to have different reason on the matter of
accepting things as they are. These virtues lead us to reasoning out reasons why we see
and understand things as we are. The reason may not tally with the truth of that thing, but
that makes us to have our own way to see and understand things in this world. The reason
that we made might be unethical, but that is our way to deal with certain things. Reason
We see and understand things not as they are Elias, Nurul Ain Atiqah
but as we are. Discuss this claim in relation to 002348-013
at least two ways of knowing.
makes us to see and understand the doing of bad thing differently with its truth. Our
virtues are strengthened by the reason that we make when we see and understand things
as we are. It is understood that the act of mercy killing which is killing someone just to
get someone off his or her pain as an unethical thing to do. It is similar as killing
somebody who is innocent. But, people that see and understand that act as we are, have
their own reason based on virtues that agree with the act of mercy killing. They see that
mercy killing is one of the ways to help the patients that had been in pain for a very long
time.
People that their life is surrounded by negative emotion such as anger, sadness or fear
cannot think and behave rationally and see situations in their own perspectives1.
Emotions make us to see and understand things as we are. Emotions control our mind to
judge things that revolve around us in our own way. We always see and understand the
same things differently at other time because our emotions that constantly change.
best way to handle with the situations. Certain people perceive things interrelated with
their past experience and cause them to possess the negative emotion is different with
other people that live their life happily. This kind of person see and understand those
things in their own way and neglecting what other people might think of what they are
doing. Whatever they do is based on the negative emotions that always haunted them in
each particular thing. Thus, they believe and stick to their own subjective viewpoint and
do not realize that the objective viewpoints of other people see and understand
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www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Negative_emotions_coping_tips
We see and understand things not as they are Elias, Nurul Ain Atiqah
but as we are. Discuss this claim in relation to 002348-013
at least two ways of knowing.
certain things not as we are but as the thing is. A man that had always been punished for
each mistakes that he did, does the same thing to his children when he becomes a father.
Because of the punishments that he always got when he was small, he becomes a
successful person and can stand on his own. For him, that is the right way to educate his
children. He does not realize that he is actually abusing his children because the anger
inside him that makes him to see and understand the acts of abusing a child as not a
We use our five senses to perceive things through perception. What we see and
understand is limited by our sense of perception. The senses always make us to deny the
claim that seeing is believing. Even though our senses of perception see things as they are
but, we do not treat it that way. We always deny the truth when we see something that is
not understandable as they are. We see what we believe but not believe what we see.
Thus, ‘believing is seeing’ is the appropriate claim to show that we always perceive
things as we are. We try to relate things that we never encountered before with our past
expect things as we are not as they are. Prejudices and earlier assumptions also lead us to
see and understand thing differently from other people. Subjective belief arises when we
use our perception to judge things. This is because; perception on certain thing is
different for each person. Certain people see or hear different thing from the others. For
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http://forums.philosophyforums.com
We see and understand things not as they are Elias, Nurul Ain Atiqah
but as we are. Discuss this claim in relation to 002348-013
at least two ways of knowing.
example, when a group of students carrying an experiment, they had set in their mind that
they will get the same exact results that they had learned theoretically. It is known that
when glucose is heated with Benedict’s reagent, the resulting solution will be brick red in
color with precipitate. Apparently, the students got an orange color with precipitate
instead of what they are supposed to get. But, there are certain students that see and
understand it as we are because their sense of perception which is the sight in this case,
had been influence by the knowledge that they had attained. Some of the students still
assume that it is a brick red color with precipitate. Thus, they still see and understand the
Language can be deceiving. People can deny the truth of things using language.
Language limits the potential of us to see and understand things as they are. We cannot
describe the real situations of things using language. Only the person that sees those
particular things in front of them can understand that things as they are. People have
difficulty to use language to portray something that they had encountered in their life.
They might leave something really important when using language to describe things that
they come across them. Things that they leave out might be very important and this will
totally change the way it is supposed to be. People that never come across that thing in
their life will misinterpret it and do not see and understand it as they are. Biased element
also comes in when people use language to describe things. People will manipulate the
language so that we will not see and understand certain sensitive things as they are.
We see and understand things not as they are Elias, Nurul Ain Atiqah
but as we are. Discuss this claim in relation to 002348-013
at least two ways of knowing.
Politicians always manipulate the truth so that it is to their advantage and other people
will not see the things as they are. The caption of a picture does not describe completely
it as they are. It depends on the photographer whether to tell the truth or not. They might
add something that is not true at all or discard something that is sensitive to certain
people. Only the photographer knows and understands the picture as they are. People
who look at the photograph see and understand it as we are based on the caption by the
As a conclusion, what we see and understand depends on who we are. We see and
understand things based on what we want it to be. Thus, we do not easily accept things as
they are. Language, emotion, perception and reason give a big influence on how we
perceive the things that revolve around us. We believe in ourselves more in
understanding of certain aspects because it is natures of human that always have their
own opinion about things that they see and understand as we are but not as they are.
We see and understand things not as they are Elias, Nurul Ain Atiqah
but as we are. Discuss this claim in relation to 002348-013
at least two ways of knowing.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/ Negative_emotions_coping_tips
2. http://forums.philosophyforums.com