"In order to find out how things really are, one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world"

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"In order to find out how things really are, one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world"

The knowledge issues involved in this claim are as follows; what does really are means, what are the filters through which one perceives the world and what is perception. Our areas of knowing include ethics, cultures, religion, mathematics, science and history. By using these areas of knowing the knowledge issues within the claim will be examined, discussed, clarified with examples and finally evaluated.

There is no one right way to look at or perceive the world as to how all things really are. The way things really are mainly depend on how they are perceived by a person. Different filters create the variations in perception. "how things really are" implies there is one true way in which things are. I believe things are the way they are due to the way I perceives them and sometimes with the aid of science and mathematics in the areas of which I have limited knowledge. I cannot determine myself that the Earth is 93 million miles away from the sun, I trust scientists and the