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Bombadillo · 05-06-2006, 09:56 PM

Oh sorry. That was just a lapse in my reading comprehension skills.

BJ said, "Aristotle seemed to realize the relative nature of human perception and that our musings on reality are just that." I thought he meant that Aristotle thought of reality as relative to our own take on it. You'd know better than me what he actually thought.

Aristotle aside, I'm pretty sure there are many people who preach that reality only exists in the mind--that reality is exactly what we percieve as reality, and anything we don't percieve is false, because, who can say otherwise?

But that just screams "devil's advocate" so obnoxiously I hate it. I find it hard to believe that anyone genuinely believes this philosophy.

No, reality is not relative to our perception of it.

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-07-2006, 05:29 PM

I could be mistaken, but I think that BJ merely meant that in opposition to the starkly uncompromising Forms of Plato's view. Am I right, BJ?

05-06-2006, 09:56 PM	#321
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Oh sorry. That was just a lapse in my reading comprehension skills. BJ said, "Aristotle seemed to realize the relative nature of human perception and that our musings on reality are just that." I thought he meant that Aristotle thought of reality as relative to our own take on it. You'd know better than me what he actually thought. Aristotle aside, I'm pretty sure there are many people who preach that reality only exists in the mind--that reality is exactly what we percieve as reality, and anything we don't percieve is false, because, who can say otherwise? But that just screams "devil's advocate" so obnoxiously I hate it. I find it hard to believe that anyone genuinely believes this philosophy. No, reality is not relative to our perception of it. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity? Last edited by Bombadillo : 11-24-2009 at 10:32 PM.

05-07-2006, 05:29 PM	#322
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I could be mistaken, but I think that BJ merely meant that in opposition to the starkly uncompromising Forms of Plato's view. Am I right, BJ? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

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