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  • Essay / An Essay on Natural Attitude and Preconceived Ideas

    The natural attitude encompasses everything you already know. It is this knowledge that we take for granted in our everyday lives. Basic knowledge of the life world that exists around you and how it functions on a daily basis. In the realm of natural attitude, we do not raise scientific questions or question the existence of something; we simply take them as facts. Consider turning on a fan. Here, every time you turn on a fan, you don't study how the fan works or how the fan starts spinning when you flip a switch. You just know that pressing a particular switch will cause the fan to start. This is exactly what the natural attitude represents and has shaped our worldview. The natural attitude exists not only in the case of physical objects, but also in the way we perceive others and ideas. The natural attitude is also relevant in scientific studies, where certain fundamental axioms, ideas, or hypotheses are often taken for granted. To understand what natural attitude and preconceptions are, think of yourself as someone who has never been influenced by any external conception – no knowledge and no experience. You have never been shown the right way to perceive anything or do anything. Imagine what your world would look like. For this, let's take an example: consider a person who has no idea about a particular object, say a book. The person has no idea what the object "book" is used for, because no one has ever explained to them the purpose or functionality of a book. To that person, a book is whatever their mind wants it to be. Every time he encounters a book, his consciousness perceives it as whatever it prefers. Depending on the situation, he used the book as a paperweight,...... middle of paper ...... associated with consciousness or perceptions in phenomenology. Our experiences are always directed towards external objects. There is always a fundamental dimension associated with our consciousness perceiving the external world. Husserl borrowed or rather developed this idea from his teacher Franz Brentano, who professed the concept of "intentional non-existence". But empiricism has nothing to do with this concept of intentionality. Empiricists subscribe to the concept of “indirect realism.” Through phenomenology, Husserl attempted to overcome all the shortcomings of empiricism and provide a comprehensive understanding of mind and experience. Phenomenologists argue that gaining knowledge about the structures of the mind and experience through phenomenology helps an observer understand that his or her essential perception of this world is not made up of empirical scientific knowledge..