(January 6, 2012 at 3:35 pm)Perhaps Wrote:(January 6, 2012 at 3:32 pm)Shell B Wrote: Perhaps, you took my statement out of context. Those weren't prerequisites for reality, ya knucklehead.
Fair enough, so then if I may ask, how do you define what is real apart from what is illusory or ideal?
I define it as neither. What is real is what exists. How I, or others, perceive it or even if we perceive it is irrelevant. Do you think the sun was here before you were? Well, I do. I don't have to see something for it to be real. However, I handle those things with scales of likelihood. For example, it is highly unlikely that a giant green monster encircles the Earth. It is slightly more likely that there is such a thing as the Loch Ness monster and so on.