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Metaphysics
The nature of reality is a perennial topic in metaphysics because it has no fundamental constituents (Kant & Abbott, 2012). Additionally, differentiating what’s real from unreal can be one of the most daunting tasks for the humans. Nonetheless, I have found myself on several occasions wondering if superstitions are real, especially the superstition about black cats as bad omens. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that this is not real because I own a black cat and it’s not a bad omen.
Someone once told me that the physical world is not real, and that the spiritual or psychological world is real. I couldn’t believe it because my eyes, nose, and sense taste and feeling can detect the elements of the physical surrounding, unlike that of the spiritual or psychological world. Ideally, the Bible keeps insisting that there is a shadow world in which the soul of the dead reside. When my grandmother died, the bishop said that her should had left her physical body, and thus was surviving outside her, and I believed it as real because I have heard of real life stories about the dead coming back to torment the living. So, the soul can survive outside the physical body.
My parents once told me that our lives were pre-determined when I was a young girl, this was the definition of fate. This actually meant that my actions would be determined by my past conditioning. However, I believe that all people have free will because the choices I have been making in life have never been restricted by fate.
Epistemology
Standish, 2006, describes epistemology as the theory of knowledge, but how is anything known? I know that questioning the existence of God might be considered blasphemous, but I am always fascinated by how people came t...

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...t occasions, my parents could tell me that my behavior wasn’t good. As a result, I use to ask myself; how should humans behave in a society? People behave in a manner that’s morally accepted by the majority in the as ethical or right. Additionally, do people give up certain rights when they choose to live in a society?
Nowadays, I have been forced to give up my freedom of association because I can’t associate with anyone or group outside my own. I have always doubted if everyone has different values, beliefs and preferences that affect individual beliefs and it’s evident that they do, but people behave differently in a crowd than they do individually. For example, I have asked myself this question whenever people demonstrate against the government. In social learning and social condition, language contains values and thus it can be used to mold the right behavior.

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