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Is There An Absolute Reality?

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Posted by John Morgan Powell on February 5, 2001 18:50:36 UTC

Alexander,

My definition may have to be discarded, but I'm not convinced yet.

I think of reality or absolute reality as an ideal we are striving to reach an understanding of. As we learn more we gain a better understanding of reality.

It's like learning about human beings. The absolute reality of humanity is an as yet undefined set of, perhaps mathematical, statements representing what humans really are. The idea of the absolute reality merely claims that humans really exist in some form. What that form is may have yet to be determined. "That form" is what I mean by reality.

Alexander, how would you characterize learning more about a thing, gaining a better understanding of it, when the "it" isn't assumed to exist in some absolutely real way?

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Re: Is there an absolute reality? - alexander - February 6, 2001 - 00:38 UTC
- Perhaps there is no absolute reality. - johnpowell - February 7, 2001 - 18:11 UTC

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