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John,
Indeed. It's hardly a standard polarity
between real world and ideal world. But what leads you think like
that: all the enumerable
realities humans like to create: ranging from personal realities and individual
worlds to irrealities, intercalated with hyperreality, social reality, consensus
reality, and what not. We tend to say: ?my world is shattered?, or ?you
live in different worlds?, "my reality is not your reality", or ?his reality is
full of spirits?, etc.
One
is confused what is real or what is ideal, what is actual and what is fictional,
what is true and what is false, what is concrete and what is abstact. And how to
distinguish a reality, real world, world views, and theories of
reality.
We
still believe the shadows on the wall make up
reality...
Azamat
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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 1:39
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] intangibles
(was RE: Why most classifications are fuzzy)
Azamat,
You can think that, but that is not the normal way people use those
worlds. I suggest that you choose different words instead of trying to
blur important distinctions.
> I incline to think that
reality/tangibility and irreality/intangibility
> are two extremes,
allowing the grades of reality//ideality.
There is a very sharp distinction between what exists in our universe and
what doesn't.
There is, however, a gradation of levels of confirmation for various
hypotheses about what exists. I suggest that you apply the gradation to
degrees of confirmation, not to degrees of existence.
John
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