I believe in Descartes rationalistic view, He's my idol in philosophical thinking. The believe that reason, without the aid of sensory perception, is capable of arriving at some knowledge, some underivable truths. I believe in proiri knowledge, knowledge known independently of sense perception and which is necessarily true and indubitable. Plato, St. Augustine, Spinoza, Anne Conway and Gottfried Wilhelm shared the same idea.
        Every animal has its own being. For example, cat likes to catch rats, dog like to guard the house. And we human being has our own being too, it is reasoning, only that we fully used our reasoning can we get happiness. A cat gain happiness in catching rats; a dog gain happiness through guarding the house.
        Worldly saying, empiricism is usable, saying that knowledge came from experience. Our mind is like a blank sheet of paper, it is through experience that we gain knowledge. When we see something, we will receive some kind of impression, then the impression stay in the mind and become ideas and knowledge.
        I do not believe knowledge comes from observation; I couldn't be sure that the United State exists if I have not went there. During my high school years, I always think that everything exist because of my consciousness.
        I am a skeptic, I cannot be very certain of the things that I know. Knowledge come through our mind, what the mind contain, is where the knowledge comes; our knowledge is limited. When we say "838ehf83he", we do not know the meaning for we haven't heard of it. Our thoughts came from our past experience. Everything is not absolute, our mind has the ability to put things together.
        Although the knowledge I have mentioned is rather worldly knowledge's, I personally think that there exist an absolute knowledge which is the knowledge to love. In this world, we often search for relative knowledge, which is the knowledge, that is explainable. The knowledge that is not explainable is the knowledge of love. No one has ever developed the theory of love for love is absolute and perfect, how a person that is imperfect knows what is perfectness ? If one day, when you old, and you found out that all the knowledge that you have been searching for is feasible, wouldn't it a wasting of life ? Science is only a knowledge for the senses; what about the knowledge of the unseen ?

Dennis Yap Tsong Hsih