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Respond to each posts. Discussion: Empiricism and the Senses George Gatchis As a young child, I unexpectedly screamed in the middle of the night after mistaking my hoodie I had hung on my bedroom door as an intruder. Everyone had gone to bed early that day due to power outage. Around one o'clock, I lit my night light, I mistook my hoodie as an intruder standing at my door. My loud screams woke up everyone in the house. In a minute, my father banged my door open with his bright flashlight illuminating all my room's corners. Upon asking why I screamed, I pointed at the 'intruder' at my door only to find it was my black hood. I became aware I had made a sensory mistake when my father focused his flashlight on the hood on my door. My perception of reality shifted when I saw the black hoodie on the door after it was lit with a flash light. I knew I had misperceived the reality of my bedroom environment due to fear. I think my senses led me to fundamentally misunderstand the situation because I feared sleeping alone as a young child. Any movement or sound invoked tension and fear. As such, I wrongly interpreted the hood as an intruder at my bedroom door. Explanation and Analysis Sometimes our senses misunderstand reality due to stress, fear or the prior experience and information we have. As a child, I always feared sleeping alone. I always laid on my bed gently, quiet, and without any movements due to fear. I experienced a normal mistaken sensory because the human brain sometimes fails to appropriately process information due to fear or stress. However, when more emphasis is made on the misinterpreted 'subject', accurate and appropriate processing of information leads to correct interpretation of the subject. According to empiricism, human knowledge is obtained predominantly from experiences gained through our senses. I gained experience that our senses can sometimes deceive us. As such, empiricism individually assesses people differently based on their perceptions. This allows them to explain how they sensed, perceived and interpreted information. However, empiricism makes perception not universal as what one person might perceive as true might be false to another due to the different experiences held. Discussion 2 - Peter Kay I think one of the biggest examples of the concept of standpoint in the news today would be the ending to the War in Afghanistan. There are multiple standpoints and even some standpoints in which we prioritize over another. For example, we would prioritize the standpoint of the American soldier over the Taliban soldier. The two standpoints I want to discuss, however, are the American soldiers and the American politicians. From these two standpoints, we see a lot of conflicting beliefs and we see them over and over in the news since the end of the war, specifically right when the Taliban took over Kubal. This goes to show that there are multiple standpoints in the end of the war but there are definitely two major ones in regards to the American side only. The political side is more focused on bringing troops home and stop the policing of other nations, specifically "not getting involved in their civil war". While the solider sentiment is wanting to help by any means and worried about the people they met over the years in Afghanistan. This is all not including the perspective of the Afghan citizens, which is a whole other standpoint.