Perception & Ways of Knowing (Logical Reasoning)

Perception

• trust senses => better combined. 
• illusion
• empiricism
• 'tabula rasa'
• perception filters => subjectivity (view of the world)
• empathy
• confirmation bias

Growing up in an international environment, I think the difference in perception is something I've dealt with more than most my whole life. Although I do know that we live in a 'bubble'- being in an affluent country- I feel that I've met people who've come from such different backgrounds I can emphasize or at least understand there are so many ways of thinking out there I don't or can't understand. 

I also feel that my Japanese background helps me understand this: Japan has such a different secluded culture, which I have not grown up in but understand a lot of, which I know most 'foreigners' (most people who've lived in Japan would understand this notion) just won't understand. 

Ways of Knowing: Logical Reasoning

• Argument/Premise/Conclusion
• Sound Logic
• A valid/true argument
• A logical fallacy
• Inductive/Deductive Logic
• Inductive Sufficiency
• Fallacy:
• Appeal to fear & false choice
• Ad hominem
• False Clause

My bringing up gives me strong opinions on this subject. My mother is strong at deductive logic (a=b, b=c, thus a=c is a favorite phrase of hers), and because of this both my brother (identical to my mother) and my mother are rather genius mathematicians. Although I don't have this talent, I've been raised to use sound logic with my mother, who gets rather irritated with illogical things. I am more a person with inductive logic, which comes from my father. As for fallacies, I am almost oblivious to most fallacies: I just don't seem to see them when people around me pick up fallacies.