Sense perception - deceiving?

I believe that sense perception is an accurate way of knowing on a practical scale. This is because there would be no other way of gaining new knowledge in this universe. Reason alone can draw new knowledge but only if that knowledge was derived from our sense perception. On a practical scale, we can use our senses for gathering knowledge in everyday life and therefore be able to manage it.

The accuracy of our sense perceptions and how much we can trust it therefore depends on our experiential knowledge we have gained from the past.

Immediately, from the very start of our lives, our sense perception is not entirely accurate. Our brain, for example, makes up part of what we see in our field of vision. This is the blind spot which is caused by a lack of photosensitive receptor cells.

Television is an example of how our senses can deceive our way of knowing. It can replicate sounds in reality and what we see in reality. It can show what is really happening in reality and it can give us information through our senses that fool our way of knowing. For example the great spaghetti hoax in 1957 on the BBC led television viewers to believe that spaghetti came from spaghetti trees.

Our senses can never be used to perceive everything in reality. For example, our sense of sight cannot perceive ultraviolet light waves. We may see the effects of ultraviolet light waves such as exposing photographic film but we must use reason to deduce what has happened in order to understand it. This view was argued by Kant in that we should not be one-sided with our way of knowing the world but that we should be autonomous and draw from reason and from our senses.