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Perception Of Christian The Lion

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Aspect perception is a way for us to tell that non-persons also have a sense of awareness with themselves and their surroundings. Since they can “know in an instant,” it follows that they have the ability to access their memory in a flash, just like humans. Christian the Lion became popular when the video of his reunion with his previous owners was posted online. Christian was bought from a zoo by a department store in London, and in 1969, two men named John and Ace purchased him from the department store. The two men took care of Christian but the lion grew bigger that they can no longer take care of him in London. Christian was introduced to the wild a year after. In 1971, John and Ace went to Kenya to visit Christian. Christian, already …show more content…

According to the Philosophical Investigations: 25. It is sometimes said: animals do not talk because they lack the mental abilities. And this means: “They do not think, and that is why they do not talk.” But – they simply do not talk. Or better: they do not use language – if we disregard the most primitive forms of language. – Giving orders, asking questions, telling stories, having a chat, are as much a part of our natural history as walking, eating, drinking, playing. In this section, Wittgenstein said that animals do not talk, if we disregard the most primitive forms of language. Yes, it is indeed true that other than the barks and the purrs, we, humans, do not make any sense of what the sounds these animals create. However, that creates a new problem to be discussed. We do not make sense about the sounds these animals create. But isn’t it the case with any other foreign language? When someone is new in a place, in Japan for example, none of the sounds they utter make any sense. Unless your newfound friend started pointing things out so that you could understand one another, you and your friend wouldn’t be able to

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