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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 8:01 pm)bennyboy Wrote: People talk about reality, but they should talk about reality AS. Experiences are real-- as experiences. Red is really red. The taste of hot chocolate on a winter day is really just that. We are experiencing those things as they really are, because they are experiences. Do those experiences represent some underlying, objective reality? Not really.

I've never really bought into arguments that our experiences don't really reflect material reality. I believe that they probably do, but our perception involves an interpretation of that reality through our mental structures. I wouldn't go as far as Kant and say that we have no access to "the thing in itself" and that the idea of objective reality outside the lens of our perception is in the realm of metaphysics, but I don't think that we can ever intuitively grasp what the world is like without our perceptions applied to it.
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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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