The Fire in the Equations #1

Epistemology: How do we know what we know.

We had an old wooden chair in front of us, and we had do describe it. This is my first description of the chair:
solid, wood, stiff, damaged and incomplete.

Then I realized that this was not the description that I had to give. I had to describe the shape of the chair to someone who has never seen a chair before, and this is what I came up with:

It has a central piece where you can sit on, made out of wood, with its base being 4 sticks coming out of that central piece  and 2 other sticks interconnecting the 4 base sticks. On top of the central piece, some flat pieces of wood held together by more sticks, made in a certain way in order to support ones back. What is holding all of the wooden pieces together are nails. The wood is solid and rough. The chair is incomplete and worn down.


This exercise  helped us realize the following:

• How do we know which is reality?
• There are infinite perceptions of the same object. We all view objects in different ways, different views and spaces.