The problem of perception in merleau-ponty's phenomenology

Merleau-Ponty establishes phenomenology based on perception. It is enough to change our perspective on the world to start perceiving it. Perception cannot be reduced to the mind alone. We perceive and are perceived together with the body. In the Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty begins to describe the mental-body, subject-object dichotomy in order to overcome it. The world is attended to in mind-body unity. If we can talk about a world, it is thanks to this body. Our first contact with the world is through the body. However, perception is versatile, events are perceived as one thing, and do not undergo certain distinctions. Explaining the body as an objective body and a phenomenal body, together with gestures that were later developed with more comprehensiveness, led Merleau-Ponty to the concept of 'meaning'. The meaning is vaguely present. The meaning of the body and the ambiguity of perception is preserved. These distinctions later caused the question of storing duality in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, and this is where the transition to ontology begins. The anonymity of the body was first mentioned in the Phenomenology of the perception of parts. In the transition to ontology, Merleau-Ponty carries the idea of anonymity to his ontology. The skin terms of the world consist of all that exists. The seer and the visible, the toucher and the touched, and even the visible join the common meeting in this world. For MerleauPonty it is more than ten concepts and entrenched tendencies. The trace of the current shaping of meaning and reality continues in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and ontology. Sometimes the bonds of our reality with others come into being by touching and being touched with a look. Realism began to be grounded in Merleau-Ponty's ontology. Meaning, which begins with the concept of ambiguity, forms the basis of reality in Merleau-Ponty's ontology. Keywords: Perception, Body, Phenomenology, Ontology, Skin, Reality