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?

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:50:53
Category: / Entertainment / Movies & Film
Length: 3 pages (743 words)
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. …
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…compound of external nature, mental imagery and inherited prejudice, is a very accurate description of everyday experience. What we can initially see is external nature, and the next one is mental imagery and the last one is inherited prejudice. And it is a strange compound of the ordinary view of the world because as I mentioned before, if there was no external nature, then there would be no mental imagery and inherited prejudice at all.
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