Friday, September 28, 2007

kent's theory= it depends on the subject X3

From the book, it seems to analyze that the red tinted glasses as the example of Kents theory to describe perspective view of the world by using the sense (look) and the reason (knowledge), combined together. i am confused if Kent's theory actually fits to whole lot, it seems to depend on the subject. Only people with great amount of knowledge and experiences actually suit Kent's theory.

It's like when a thirteen year old boy wears this special glasses, even though, he sees the actual view in front of him in red, he however rejects the fact the whole view as "red". He actually knows that the world is not "red". It suits very well with
Kent's theory.

However, if an animal or a baby wore these red glasses, how would it react? Would it actually acknowledge that the world is actually not red? I would like to say, I am slight unsure, but they would probably accept that the world is red. Even though I am not sure of an animal but the baby would probably look amused and also maybe clap by seeing something different and as time passes by it decides see the world as red.

When it refers to an animal wearing a pair of red tinted glasses seems to be similar to the example of a horse wearing the bridle, which covers both sides of its head.

A horse, wears a bridle. It could only see the front. Even though there are fresh crops by the side it cannot recognize that it is there. Then suddenly, the carrot is put in the front and this horse especially Luvs carrots. Would it think of the reason of a random carrot suddenly standing in front of it? It would actually not think about it, it would only think about the food, its sight is the only one which is fully concentrated on the horse. It would definitely run for it until it gets the carrot.

Even though, baby is a human, still it doesn't have great amount of knowledge and experience.
A baby, only few months old, not capable enough to walk is forced to walk. At the first time as it's suddenly forced to do it, I am sure, It will start crying like mad. However as time passes by, it will just accept it and begins to walk and learn later that this is one of the knowledge. It
now sees for the first time, itself standing. The babies seem to be the usual ones, which begin
to absorb on using the mixture of look and reason, but not as Kent's theory.

So, yup. Kent's theory is not fully acceptable; even though Kent's theory on the combo of sensation and reason is a great idea and suits exactly to the people with knowledge and experiences however, it doesn't get along with other living species other than them.

3 comments:

Abigael Tan said...

There were some good points said in your essay. If you added more references from the book, I think it would make the essay more interesting. Do you mean to say that everyone has both reason and senses in them? The only difference in everyone is the proportion of the two elements in everyone?

sharon said...

not everyone. only people
who had variety of experiences
and knowledge. hm...about the other
question...i have to think about it.

jaynelo said...

You made some good points here Sharon. However, I must say I don't really agree with how you said 'only people with great amount of knowledge and experiences suit Kant's theory'. I think Kant's point is that we need to use our minds as well as what we see in order to make sense of and understand the world around us. I'm sure many of us here today can use both sensory and reason to judge things, although many of may not have 'great amount of knowledge and experiences'. I'm not really sure what you meant by that, but I'm assuming you mean people tend to get confused? If that is the case, then I believe that people get confused because they are unsure of either what they see, or have ambiguous knowledge of certain things.

I like how you compared a 13 year old boy's perspective with a baby's. Their contrast in age is a great example of lack of experience in life to come to conclusions.