Seeing Is Believing

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Seeing is believing Seeing is believing is an idiom first recorded in this form in 1639 that means "only physical or concrete evidence is convincing". Many times in our life the sense of sight is used to give us evidence that will determine what is believed. If we look logically it is correct, you believe in what you have seen. We can find this idiom in every aspect of our casual life, but in my opinion we can’t tell,that it’s true.An aim of my essay is to prove it. Human beings gain most of their knowledge from vision, as they get a clear sense of the world surrounding them through sight. From various cases discussed we can observe that vision does not consist merely of seeing, and in fact, there are a number of other activities that go on in one’s brain when one is ‘seeing’. When a person goes blind, everyone would expect them to lose all vision. But as mentioned previously, seeing itself is only a small part of vision. In one case example, a woman named Diane became completely blind, yet she was still able to perform certain functions that one would expect only a person capable of seeing to do. This provides evidence that the sense of vision requires a lot more than seeing, for there is a much more complex series of processes that allow one to perceive visually without the ability to see. Let’s look at this idiom from the aspect of science, of course it works. I’d like to give an example from history- landing on the moon. Billions of people saw photos and videos of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, however we can never be sure if it is true. Maybe this information was tempered, but looking at this example we can see, how the visual information makes people believe in amazing things. Essentially, perception and knowledge come hand in hand. Humans cannot gain any knowledge without the act of perception. Even if our actions are not intentional, in our mere
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