ARCS ACT 1&4 pg 283

2. Taste is something I find unreliable. For example, many things taste like something else like chicken. Chicken has a “universal” taste that could cause someone who can not use their other senses to identify what they are eating could possibly trick them into what really was the right food. Touch might also seem like a deceiving sense, because let’s say you are blindfolded you probably couldn’t tell the difference without using your other senses whether you were feeling a rigid rock or sandpaper. A person’s testimony of their senses could develop an argument with someone else’s testimony of their senses, because it is all based out of ones opinion and people find that person truthful and reliable. Some people would trust a blind person to identify a distinct smell because they have to develop a keen sense of smell to live their lives versus a person who is able to see what they smell.

4. In the text they talk about how rhetoricians never take anyone’s testimony at face value without motives and witnesses. Using this as a helpful tool in my research project, the person I am studying is under my very own testimony. It could be that we have a phone interview and he tells me all these facts, but if I do not observe face to face what he is talking about than I may be lied to. Seeing is believing in this world and you can never be sure if someone is telling you the truth without seeing it for yourself.