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Chairs and tables don't exist in anyone's mind. What exists in the mind are concepts of chairs and tables, which should not be confused with what they are; concepts of. The concept of X is one thing, but X is another thing. So I think that the view that reality exists only in the mind is a hypothesis, but a false hypothesis, since it confuses concepts with what the concepts are of.
Originally posted by Fire
why would it not be reasonable BF? I'm not trying to defend anything here
I'm just saying I think/believe that reality is different for each and everyone one of us
You're saying that because you can't be 100 percent sure if everyone see's the same thing that it is therefor not likely that they do. Which is false. More then likely I see whatever everyone else see.s
Reality could be different to every single one of us. It definately ties in with perception.
For example, if I sit next to a guy and say to him "What does that road sign look like?" and he says "Triangular and red", is he saying that because it's actually what he sees or is he saying that because that's the only way my brain knows how to perceive it when he is infact seeing something completely different? Maybe each of our realities are different and the only reason we haven't touched on it is because our inability to perceive other realities so we only hear what we can.
-AC
Reality... yeah it could be a illusion perhaps. This way to think of reality is always undefinable by us.
Think like objective reality that it is "something" that exists somewhere independently of us, and everything we observe is just a indirect way to see things, and a personal way. If the reality you talk about is the objective reality then we can never know it, as it exists independently of us, and we cannot ever acess it, its just a metaphysical concept. Does something that no one will never see, or feel, or taste.... or influentiate us in someway exist? We will never see objective reality we don´t interact with it, and it doesn´t even need to exist since we are always in the world of our individual reality.
Reality in everyday usage means everything that exists. The term Reality, in its most liberal sense, includes everything that is, whether or not it is observable, accessible or understandable by science, philosophy, theology or any other system of analysis. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being.
It is also an album by David Bowie, released in 2003 😄
Originally posted by Storm
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Chairs and tables don't exist in anyone's mind. What exists in the mind are concepts of chairs and tables, which should not be confused with what they are; concepts of. The concept of X is one thing, but X is another thing. So I think that the view that reality exists only in the mind is a hypothesis, but a false hypothesis, since it confuses concepts with what the concepts are of.
"To know that you don't know is the beginning of knowledge." Socrates
How do you know that actual things (x) and the concept of (x) are two distinct entities? A concept of something and the subject of the concept is the same thing as opposite proof is not possible. Storm, you merely ride on the philosophical ideas of the philosophers of teaching material commonly in circulation. Why don't you think about things for yourself? One is no philosopher if one only utter the words of previous philosophers.
There has never been real proof or compelling reason to believe that there are real-world objects distinguished from the concepts about them. We don't have any proof, so the most we can humbly say is that we have concepts.