"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses." - Hannah Arendt
This quote suggests that language doesn't always have particular words or vocabulary to know or describe how we feel. Most emotions that we feel cannot be described in words of language. Meaning, there is a limitation to what we know in language. Our senses allows great measures of interpretation of feelings whereas language is limited. Things we hear as well - we can use synonyms but we cannot exactly get the perfect word to explain what we hear, smell or taste. So in a way, our senses is a form of communication (but in this context, with ourselves), because it allows us to interpret this without using words.
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Monday, 3 October 2016
Blog Post 3 - A balance between shared and personal knowledge
A balance between shared and personal knowledge is extremely important in the quest for the truth
Knowing both shared and personal knowledge will help us gain more understanding about the world and not to fall into any information that is thrown at us. We need to be questioning what is relevant? Is it the truth? Knowing both knowledge (shared and personal), we will be able to identify if it is true or it is just being said to please the person or make them feel superior in a sense. An example would be a lesson I personally learned in Psychology, where Asch (1951) conducted an experiment to investigate why humans have a need to belong in a group. He showed participants 3 lines labelled A,B and C. And participants had to speculate which line was exactly like the target. Participants had to say the answer out loud, so as they were stating their answers; the other participants followed the same answer because they did not want to feel stupid. This tells us that we find a need to conform in a group even though we know the answer that we personally know is correct; yet we still have the desire to be like everyone else.
Knowing both shared and personal knowledge will help us gain more understanding about the world and not to fall into any information that is thrown at us. We need to be questioning what is relevant? Is it the truth? Knowing both knowledge (shared and personal), we will be able to identify if it is true or it is just being said to please the person or make them feel superior in a sense. An example would be a lesson I personally learned in Psychology, where Asch (1951) conducted an experiment to investigate why humans have a need to belong in a group. He showed participants 3 lines labelled A,B and C. And participants had to speculate which line was exactly like the target. Participants had to say the answer out loud, so as they were stating their answers; the other participants followed the same answer because they did not want to feel stupid. This tells us that we find a need to conform in a group even though we know the answer that we personally know is correct; yet we still have the desire to be like everyone else.
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