{"id":467,"date":"2015-02-23T03:38:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T08:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/?p=467"},"modified":"2015-02-23T03:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T08:38:17","slug":"addressing-sense-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/2015\/02\/23\/addressing-sense-certainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing Sense-Certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common theme among the readings is the concept of the senses and how they relate to knowledge. \u00a0In <em>Phenomenology of Spirit,\u00a0<\/em>Hegel coins the term sense-certainty as something that &#8220;immediately appears as the <em>richest<\/em> kind of knowledge&#8221; and as &#8220;a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found,&#8221; (I.91). \u00a0The way I interpreted this statement was by noting how important our senses are in determining what things are and therefore gaining knowledge. \u00a0Knowledge gained through the senses (i.e., sight, smell, touch, taste, feel) provides the most natural and most hands-on experience in an attempt to identity and later understand an object.<\/p>\n<p>Another quote that stands out to me is the one when Hegel says &#8220;But, in the event, this very\u00a0<em>certainly\u00a0<\/em>proves itself the most abstract and poorest<em> truth<\/em>&#8221; (I.91). \u00a0I think this means that within the known factors, such as what we feel or see, we still have yet to delve into the true meaning of the object beyond merely identifying the object alone. \u00a0It seems to be that sense-certainty is very important in the eyes of Hegel as the &#8220;richest knowledge&#8221; because it enhances our deductive reasoning. \u00a0It forces us to use our senses to determine what we might think we know.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of sense-certainty is still very complex in its meaning and by the way it encapsulates other sub-forms of knowledge and thought such as consciousness for example. \u00a0Its perplexity makes sense in a complicated way by the way that the acquisition of knowledge can be reached in a multitude of ways, including how some knowledge is taught and how some is developed through the use of our senses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common theme among the readings is the concept of the senses and how they relate to knowledge. \u00a0In Phenomenology of Spirit,\u00a0Hegel coins the term sense-certainty as something that &#8220;immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge&#8221; and as &#8220;a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/2015\/02\/23\/addressing-sense-certainty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[119,51,18,130],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity","category-knowledge","tag-hegel","tag-lauren","tag-philosophy","tag-sense-certainty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/basicproblems002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}