And if reality can be merely real, can something else can be more than real? — Pantagruel
in which an experience is thought to be enhanced through the benefit of some predisposing information as to its supposed sublimity. — Pantagruel
And if reality can be merely real, can something else can be more than real? — Pantagruel
It all has to do with expectations. Reality stays the same, but a heightened sense of reality occurs at times. No, there's nothing "more real". — jgill
Within this realm there is no ultimate satisfaction or peace to be found, because all is perishing, transient and ultimately empty. — Wayfarer
And if reality can be merely real, can something else can be more than real? — Pantagruel
My take is that (in the context of consciousness which I take to be a definitive feature of what is in question) necessarily there exists some greatest thinking thing. Ergo that thing is by definition God (without attaching any further implications or speculations as to the nature of that thing, which, based it would be invalid for inferior beings to do anyway). — Pantagruel
The abundance and beauty of the variety of tropes, metonomy, synechdoche, prosopoeia, metaphor, and the way they all blend and merge seamlessly and effortlessly into one another. If anything is more than real, for me, this is. — Pantagruel
It must be quite disheartening for philosophers to hear someone say "This? This is merely real!" — Agent Smith
One of the more interesting themes that I find recurring in Proust is the way in which an experience is thought to be enhanced through the benefit of some predisposing information as to its supposed sublimity. — Pantagruel
One of the more interesting themes that I find recurring in Proust is the way in which an experience is thought to be enhanced through the benefit of some predisposing information as to its supposed sublimity. Often, however, the actual experience comes up wanting, as the trivialities of the moment intrude upon the "merely real." And if reality can be merely real, can something else can be more than real? — Pantagruel
1. God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived.
2. If god is not real then God is not that than which nothing greater can be conceived.
Ergo,
3. God is (merely) real. — Agent Smith
I think it's just a matter of a shift in consciousness. The "merely real" is the sublime, when "the trivialities of the moment" do not intrude upon it, or in other words, are not seen as trivial. — Janus
What was the Balbec passage that you were thinking about? — SophistiCat
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