Is The World How We Perceive It to Be?
Introduction
Philosophy, like the hard sciences, always introduces very enigmatic concepts. Until now, the idea of the reality of the world and where it really did come from still remains an unsolved mystery. With this being said, one ultimate question arises, how certain are we that the world is really how we perceive it to be? This paper analyzes the answers given by two of the world’s modern-day philosophers John Locke, and George Berkeley.
The major claim that John Locke, an English philosopher, used to approach the question was the concept of Tabula Rasa. This concept states that ...