There is no outside-reality.
Tag: reality
-
Sexual predators think that if people do not think them a predator then they are not one. Similarly, exceptionalists think that if they are exceptional then they are. The problem is, the facts do not match the reality.
What is primary is the independent reality, not the thoughts. This, I believe, is the problem of most people, including philosophers who do not ask the hard questions about whether the facts – particularly their facts – match reality.
Reality is not theirs. Reality is independent, shared, and common to all.
-
When I said object-space-time is a system I mean they are not found separately. Except for in the mind as a concept objects can be separated out from space and time. This is true true of space and time as well – for only in the mind as concepts can this be done. In reality itself this is impossible.
Try removing something you dislike from the reality, and you will find that ignoring it is not the same thing as it doesn’t exist in this reality.
-
Here are two definitions of world given in Flew and Priest’s Dictionary of Philosophy:
- The totality of what exists
- The totality of what exists outside the human mind
Definition #2 suggests that the world and mind are separate, therefore the mind is not part of the world. It also suggests that the world is somehow created by the mind, and it depends on the mind to exist.
Two problems arise from this. One is that what is the quality of this mind that does not match the qualities of the world? Secondly, how does one person’s world match to another person’s world? Furthermore, if the first mind is the creator of the world then it must be creator of the second person’s mind as well. Or else, the mind is not your mind but the mind of someone else’s (God as Berkeley suggests).
Somehow I suspect that definition #2 is the definition for idealism, mind-only monism, rationality, and logic based philosophies.
Only definition #1 is feasible.
theoria 