I know reality through sense experiences and rationalization of sense and mental experiences. Reality is of things, space, and time. Rationality is of abstract entities: non-things, non-space, and non-time. Yet rationality is a reality-based process. Experience is therefore both sense and mental.
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I am an experiential thing. But before I am an experiential thing, I am simply a thing. The initial “pure” experience is without awareness of self, which leads to the mistake of thinking of the experience as the self, when in fact the experiential thing is the self. I am not an experience, but I am an experiential thing.
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Reality is the entirety of things, inferred space and inferred time. Things, space, and time are consistent, and therefore predictable. Cause and effects are characteristics of reality, as are consequences. Our concerns should be of reality, of things, space, and time.
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Space is inferred from the relationship of things. Time is inferred from the change in the relationship of things in space. Our senses cannot perceive space and time. We can only infer space and time from objects and the relationships and the changes in the relationships of objects.
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There are things. Our initial experience of reality is of objects in the external world, not of something in the internal world. The phenomenon of our perception is not an immaterial self but of the material others. We are at this initial stage not aware of the experience but only aware of the objects of experience.
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There are three kinds of entities: object entities, symbolic entities, and thought entities. There are more symbolic entities than object entities. And there are more thought entities than symbolic entities.
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Reality consists of particulars. The entirety of particulars is things. There is no larger object category than things. There is, however, the larger thought and symbolic categories of entities.
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Object is what exists in the physical world. Thought is what occurs in the brain. Symbol is what occurs in language. Both thought and symbol occur as a process of an object.
(A refinement of the last post.)
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Referent is what goes on in the physical world. Concept is what goes on in the head. Symbol is what goes on in language. Both concept and symbol go on in physical world as processes.
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I think task is a better word for what we are supposed to do as a being in reality. Purpose presumes a separate goal. Whereas the task is the goal.
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