Argumentative Essay: Why Seeing Is Believing?

Is “Seeing is believing” a statement you agree with? Some people might say yes and others might not. Statements like these relate to perception and reality because it talks about other people’s perceptions or ideas that might be different than reality or your perspective. “Seeing is believing” means that only physical or concrete evidence is convincing. In other words, people would only believe something if they see it with their own eyes. I believe that this quote is not true because people use illusions and “misdirection” to trick your eyes and your mind.

First of all, “Seeing is believing” is untrue because magicians use “misdirection” to draw the audience’s attention toward the “effect,” which distracts them from the secret action they do. In the magazine

In public art “Pavement Chalk Art,” Julian Beever creates drawings that make some people to think they are entering an evident and natural place using illusions. For example, in the drawing,” A Slight Accident in a Railway Station,” Beever uses thin and thick lines and long and short lines to create an illusion on the stairs going down to the railway station. He uses thick lines at the start of the stairway and thin near the end of the stairway, making it look like actual stairs farther away from the drawing. As stated in the text, “Artists make choices about the works they produce and the techniques they use to create those works (pg.90).” In other words, Illusions can make your eyes and your mind to get confused, so people can think the drawings of Beever might look real. This is used in art to make people to depict the illusionary nature of perception and art. To sum up, chalk art drawings created by Julian Beever are illusions, so the idiom, “Seeing is believing” is not true because illusions are things that look real, but they're