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Can we see reality as it is?

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Can we see reality as it is?
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RE: Can we see reality as it is?
December 30, 2013 at 5:39 pm
(December 30, 2013 at 5:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: To answer the OP:

No, we can't. All we can see is that some, many or most experiences seem consistent with each other-- or at least with an idea we have about what underlies them.
I respectively disagree. We do see reality as it is, we simply do not see all of reality since we are not omniscient.
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Can we see reality as it is?

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Can we see reality as it is? - by FractalEternalWheel - December 30, 2013 at 10:35 am
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by SoothSayer - December 30, 2013 at 11:12 am
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by Mudhammam - January 2, 2014 at 1:53 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by houseofcantor - January 2, 2014 at 2:24 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by Mudhammam - January 2, 2014 at 3:01 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by bennyboy - January 2, 2014 at 11:39 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by Neo-Scholastic - December 30, 2013 at 11:24 am
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by bennyboy - December 30, 2013 at 5:19 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by Neo-Scholastic - December 30, 2013 at 5:39 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by bennyboy - December 30, 2013 at 8:01 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by TudorGothicSerpent - December 30, 2013 at 10:20 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by Whateverist - December 30, 2013 at 5:24 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by TudorGothicSerpent - December 30, 2013 at 8:00 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by Neo-Scholastic - December 30, 2013 at 10:36 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by bennyboy - December 30, 2013 at 10:56 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by TudorGothicSerpent - December 31, 2013 at 1:24 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by houseofcantor - December 31, 2013 at 1:32 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by TudorGothicSerpent - December 31, 2013 at 1:50 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by houseofcantor - December 31, 2013 at 2:54 pm
RE: Can we see reality as it is? - by MindForgedManacle - January 3, 2014 at 1:21 am

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