It brings to mind an Emerson quote, emphasis added: — James Riley
Is it possible to give a rigorous definition of 'reality'? — Cidat
@Banno@James RileyIs it possible to give a rigorous definition of 'reality'? — Cidat
Reality is the word we use when we go hunting for certainty. — Tom Storm
Say, "They can ignore the consequences all they like now, but at some point reality is gonna smack them in the face."The real [reality] is that which hurts you badly, often fatally, when you don't respect it.
I think reality is circumstance. I think reality is nature. It brings to mind an Emerson quote, emphasis added:
— James Riley
Here [In nature] we find sanctity which shames our religions and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find nature to be circumstance, which dwarfs all other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her. — Emerson, Nature
I don't know if I'd call this rigorous, but I find it very satisfying - the ground of being. It's what's all the way at the bottom when you've swept everything else away. It's a term sometimes used to describe the indescribable Tao. — T Clark
As you probably know, Paul Tillich, one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the 20th century, used this term 'ground of being' to describe god. — Tom Storm
Not sure how that works exactly. — Antony Nickles
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In my experience, if you come across it on the page, you get the most recent version. If you follow a link to your name, you get the version that was current when it was first saved. If you add a mention to a post later, the person mentioned doesn't get a notice. — T Clark
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It sounds like you're discussing the intersubjective aspects of object permanence -- on-topic -- but in code, or using the forum as a metaphor. — Srap Tasmaner
I would define it as "That which is right now, irregardless of belief, attitude or consideration." — Cidat
It sounds like you're discussing the intersubjective aspects of object permanence -- on-topic -- but in code, or using the forum as a metaphor. — Srap Tasmaner
What say you regarding a-priori knowledge and its status in regards to reality? — Manuel
but I would disagree that these “filters”, or any conceptions a priori, are part of reality.
Reality is best conceived as an empirical domain; real is best conceived as a rational quality. Separate accordingly, I should think. — Mww
I think things become fuzzy quite quickly in the a-priori vs. empirical domain. — Manuel
Even though we cannot see it (we cant go behind our a-priori mechanisms and see them in action) — Manuel
if whatever the a priori is that we have (....) is not a part of reality as such, then we can't speak of reality at all. — Manuel
Ahhhh....but we can. We know it as thinking. And we do separate, by delineating that which is sensed, from that which is thought. — Mww
Case in point....if reality is conceived as that which contains all real things, reality cannot itself be conceived as a real thing, for then reality must contain itself, an impossibility. If reality is not a thing, but can be represented in thought, hence subsequently talked about, then it is nothing more than a conception, and the conceptions conjoined with it to form propositions about it, must themselves be either hypotheticals or altogether unknowable. — Mww
Good speaking with you as well, and don’t sell yourself short. Nothing trivial about this stuff. It is what we do, after all. — Mww
real is best conceived as a rational quality — Mww
...reality is whatever there is (for us). Anything beyond that or whatever grounds this reality, is admitted as mostly unknowable. — Manuel
To say "the a priori is not part of reality" amounts to saying 'brain organization' doesn't constitute a functioning brain – "a part of reality" – when, in fact, it does. — 180 Proof
Without any shadow of doubt [as: lack of confidence], amidst this vertigo of shows [appearances] and politics, I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed, that we should not postpone and refer [to a reality] and wish [for certainty], but do broad justice where we are [in a context], by whomsoever we deal with, accepting [before knowing] our actual companions and circumstances [conditions of each thing], however humble [ordinary the criteria] or odious, as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. — Emerson, Experience
And the fact that our (non-mathematical) world is not certain freaks us out so much we cut ourselves off from the thing-in-itself (from what essentially interests us) so that we can impose certainty onto the (our) world, even though we can't know (for certain) the "real" world. We kill the world before we even get started knowing each thing by their everyday criteria. — Antony Nickles
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