Editing Perception (section)

== Philosophy ==
{{main|Philosophy of perception}}
Perception is an important part of the theories of many philosophers it has been famously addressed by [[René Descartes|Rene Descartes]], [[George Berkeley]], and [[Immanuel Kant]] to name a few. In his work The Meditations Descartes begins by doubting all of his perceptions proving his existence with the famous phrase "I think therefore I am", and then works to the conclusion that perceptions are God-given.<ref>{{Citation |last=Hatfield |first=Gary |title=René Descartes |date=2023 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2023/entries/descartes/ |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |access-date=2023-11-11 |edition=Winter 2023 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref> George Berkely took the stance that all things that we see have a reality to them and that our perceptions were sufficient to know and understand that thing because our perceptions are capable of responding to a true reality.<ref>{{Citation |last=Downing |first=Lisa |title=George Berkeley |date=2021 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/berkeley/ |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |access-date=2023-11-11 |edition=Fall 2021 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref> Kant almost meets the rationalists and the empiricists half way. His theory utilizes the reality of a noumenon, the actual objects that cannot be understood, and then a phenomenon which is human understanding through the mind lens interpreting that noumenon.<ref>{{Citation |last=Rohlf |first=Michael |title=Immanuel Kant |date=2023 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2023/entries/kant/ |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |access-date=2023-11-11 |edition=Fall 2023 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref>