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[[phenomenological cage]]
Deliberation is a process of thoughtfully weighing options before making a decision. Yet, to choose among the available options, we have to agree on the options available to us and the outcomes. But often, we disagree about the options or how the world behaves. These disagreements result from differences in our understanding of how the world works. So, to be able to understand better why we perceive the world differently, I suggest we have to understand how our knowledge is built and why it is different differs from person to person. This Page will explain how knowledge is built and why we perceive the world differently.
To explain knowledge, I will suggest that knowledge is a thing that is being used to understand, explain, predict, and manipulate the inputs that come from the senses.
Those inputs from our senses, whether outer senses like smell, vision, hearing, touch, warmth, etc., or from our inner senses like thirst, hunger, love, hate, etc., will all be called phenomena. Phenomena, in correspondence to Kant's philosophy, are our sense's experiences.
We try to understand our surroundings and inner feelings through knowledge, but we have an unobservable barrier to our surroundings or even our inner selves. We have no access to the surroundings. All our knowledge about the "surroundings" comes from our senses. We have phenomena but no access to the thing that creates the experiences. For more than 2500 years of epistemology, [[The Historircal overview of the phenomenological cage|nobody had found a reliable way to establish a relationship between perception and the “surrounding”]]. To demonstrate the problem of the relations between knowledge and the surroundings, we may use the thought experiment of the “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat brain in a vat].” In this thought experiment, you are asked to find a reliable way to know if you exist as you perceive it or if you are a brain in a vat, which gets its sensory inputs from a computer that simulates the perceived world. As a result of our inability to go beyond our perceptions, I will call this principle '"The phenomenological cage principle'''.
Therefore, I'll try to set some axioms that will enable us to understand what knowledge is and how we should treat it in relation to the "things" we observe. '''axiom 1''': We can only say that we perceive. I will suggest how this perception is constructed later in this paper. As a result of our inability to go beyond our perceptions, I will call this principle '"The phenomenological cage principle'''
===Axioms of Knowledge===