In Order to Find Out how Things Really Are, One Must Understand the Filters Through Which One Perceives the World

Men perceive the world around them through the means of emotion, reason, language and perception. It is through these means that men learn, perfect and extend their areas of knowing. But the world in which one has lived, the culture and the society where one grew up create filters through which he will perceive the world. These social filters are coloring his personal ways of knowing: they will give a particular flavour to the way he interprets "raw data" he receives from the world around him. …