... the world through the lens of one's mind rather than with the physical feature of the bodily eyes. In comparison to Thoreau's idea, Plato does an outstanding job of portraying that humans' eyesight is only meant to skim the surface of things, but not penetrate them for a deeper understanding. Plato's cavemen theory is probably one of the earliest analogies about humans' incapability to see things in depth. In the dialogue of "Allegory of the Cave ... ", Plato asks his readers to imagine a group of prisoners, who were kept in a cave down the Earth. These cavemen have been in the cave ever ...

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... it is a fact that eventually one will know how he/she perceives the world for him/herself. Perception is an individual case for every person, basing on the manners of their learning and experiencing. Emotion, reason and logic, also play important roles within the views of all these people. An example, the allegory of the cave, for the empiricists it would be much harder to believe what they have not seen ... their perception on this would be I do not think it really exists because I have not seen it, I have not lived it. This would limit their emotion since the reality does not come to ...

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