How far can we rely on the knowledge available to us through perception?

Perception is the knowledge we gain through our senses. This essay is to discuss the value of knowledge we get through hearing, feeling, seeing, smelling and tasting. There is no doubt that humans can survive without some of these tools. Losing one, for example sight, makes the others stronger. But what if you had to do with none of these but one? We can be tricked in every one of these. Sight is probably one …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 467 total…feel or taste anything, the smell of arsenic would be the only thing to cheer me up. From this can see that our knowledge based on perception is not on a very strong base, but maybe that's why we have all five of them instead of just one. The important thing is that we recognise when we might be fooled and try to minimise this. In normal everyday situations, however, we can trust our senses.