For example, sensory perception for the processes of Aristotle's term "abstraction" plays an important role. This was the argument against Plato's “remembrance” theory from Terence Irwin's book “Introductory Reading of Aristotle” (see Book 2). Aristotle argued that what we perceive with our senses and what we gather into what we learn and understand is an abstraction. Knowledge of everything we know does not come from the soul, which contains an unlimited amount of information as Plato's theory of memory suggests, but is actually a process called abstraction. The process of collecting and storing information through our senses. But the problem may be that people misunderstand or misuse what their senses perceive and draw the wrong understanding from the information they have gathered, which leads to an illusion rather than understanding. For example, we cultivate prejudices towards certain things and tastes towards others simply by seeing them. If we don't like a color or shape, we may not investigate it further or even ignore it, gathering information and understanding it incorrectly just because of how we feel about it. The same can be said about liking something that we might sometimes exaggerate and overestimate, just because we like it so much even if it doesn't have much of what we would like it to have..
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