Questions tagged [reality]
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Is there a difference between "true" and "real"?
Is there a difference between "true" and "real"? If so, what is the difference? I am asking because I have heard those words used interchangeably, but I am wondering if there is a ...
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How our brains create colors as qualia? [closed]
As we know, colors as we see them don’t actually exist out there in the world, they come from how our brains understand electromagnetic wavelengths. The sun and other light sources send out ...
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What does it mean to say "possible in reality?" [closed]
Consider the following truth table.
I am hungry
My eyes are closed
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Each row is possible. But that seems to me like an incomplete statement. Instead, I think it makes more sense ...
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Could you critique my statements below about connection between mind and reality? [closed]
I've thought about reality and how it connects to the mind. Starting from the only thing we can be certain about, our existence, and principle of causality. With those I've come up with the below ...
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Is probability physical or idealistic? Is probability an inherent part of nature/reality?
I asked this question a while back: Is entropy physical or idealistic?
Now, I am back to ask if the subject that entropy built around is inherently real i.e., probability in itself being inherent not ...
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What are all the uses of the word 'reality', that is, what does 'reality' mean?
Many people use the word 'reality' as if they know what they mean, but do they? What is the meaning of 'reality'? Also, what is the principle meaning of the word 'reality'?
EDIT - I was looking for ...
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Is the notion of a fuzzy reality coherent?
Can reality be fuzzy? If so, how would this look like?
In quantum mechanics, a particle can be in a superposition of two states before measurement. In the many worlds interpretation, this is neatly ...
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What do we mean when we ask "What's the – fundamental – nature of reality?" [duplicate]
This is a very popular question within metaphysics and I'd like to understand what do we are really mean with the question.
In particular, what do we mean when we use the words "fundamental" ...
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What do we deem conscious or not? Is it just sensations and experiences? What is the cutoff point to claim that something is conscious?
What I am trying to ask in particular is how do we know what is conscious and what is not just because something moves, breathes and interacts with the environment doesn't mean it is necessarily ...
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How to prove the world is real, and one isn’t just hallucinating everything? [duplicate]
I'm not asking whether other minds are real or not, I'm asking whether the whole shebang is "real".
Google Gemini says it's impossible to know/prove it, and basically says to "move on&...
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Is there some sort of disconnect between the math we use and our "observed phenomena" in reality?
So my question comes from two questions on this site one of them being my own, How small can we measure space? and Is the (surprising) applicability of mathematics to the physical world a brute fact ...
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How small can we measure space? [closed]
I got this question after looking into transcendental numbers and I noticed how there are some distinctions that should be made from numbers and reality especially in measurement of length for example ...
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Why is Philosophy not taught in schools or more widely studied?
(I am new to this section in stackexchange)
Is it because the subject is too vague to become a subject? Also, when I meet college students, I ask them what they study, I find them studying a wide rage ...
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So what is real? what do you think? [closed]
If you can't be 100 percent sure about your senses, how can you be sure that anything is real?
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Is there a work of fiction so "fictional", that is so different from our everyday reality, that there is absolutely nothing similar to it? [closed]
Can one produce/write a work of fiction that is so fictional that there is no connection to anything within the real world? If not, why?
And what I mean by connection is that there is no relation in ...
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