To what extent can we trust these senses and more importantly when can we trust them. In
some situations these senses can prove to be lifesaving and in other they might prove to be
fatal in most serious fashion. Therefore when is it that we should trust our senses. Our
senses are based on our perception, our ability to use our combined senses to understand
and interact with our environment. According to the correspondence theory of truth, a
statement, or our knowledge, is said to be true if it corresponds with the actual state of
affairs.
As we know there are four ways of knowing. They are language, emotion, reason and
sense perception. We should look at the various areas of knowledge to know if our senses
give us the truth. Senses always do not give us the truth but they provide us with data
which we can interpret in our own way. But there is a problem that our interpretation of the
data we get from our senses may or may not be reliable. First of all we should take a look
at what is truth. Truth is a rather common word used in everyday language, yet its specific
definition is rather elusive. As said every human interaction requires some level of trust, if
it is not there you cannot even communicate with the person in question. To assess whether
you can trust someone or not, you need to assess the given situation with very limited
available knowledge. Every person defines his own meanings for words and we are only
able to arrive to some sort of approximation of the meaning the other participant is trying
to convey to us. Due of this uncertainty, language cannot ultimately define what truth is.
So when should we trust our senses to give us the truth? For example if there is a snake in
front of a girl named Heidi, and that there is another girl named Hannah who tells Heidi
that going near the snake could be dangerous and that Heidi should run away. Therefore
Heidi should either trust Hannah and run away or she could stand near the snake and get
bitten by it and get the poison from it. Whatever her decision may be, she is going to make
it in an instant based on very limited and questionable information that the poison from the
snake is rather deadly. That is the essence of trusting something. Usually you base it in
