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Single Idea 21660
[filed under theme 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Full Idea
Reality can be seen as everything that is the case - the totality of all facts that obtain - or reality can be seen as everything there is - the totality of all things that exist.
Gist of Idea
Reality can be seen as the totality of facts, or as the totality of things
Source
Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 10)
Book Ref
Hofweber,Thomas: 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' [OUP 2018], p.248
A Reaction
Things are a lot easier to specify than facts, but on the whole I prefer facts, just in order to affirm that there is more to reality than the mere 'things' that compose it. Our ontology must capture the dynamic and relational character of reality.
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The world is facts, not things. Facts determine the world, and the world divides into facts [Wittgenstein]
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All we have of general existence is what existential quantifiers express [Quine]
The
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with the same theme
[sort of reality to which realists are committed]:
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221
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us
[Plato]
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6562
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Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux
[Plato, by Fogelin]
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12095
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Knowledge of potential is universal and indefinite; of the actual it is definite and of individuals
[Aristotle]
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6262
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We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features
[Montaigne]
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12752
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Only unities have any reality
[Leibniz]
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21926
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Schopenhauer, unlike other idealists, says reality is irrational
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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10352
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The real is the idea in which the community ultimately settles down
[Peirce]
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22202
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The World is all experiencable objects
[Husserl]
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5370
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Space is neutral between touch and sight, so it cannot really be either of them
[Russell]
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22161
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Readiness-to-hand defines things in themselves ontologically
[Heidegger]
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13934
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To be 'real' is to be an element of a system, so we cannot ask reality questions about the system itself
[Carnap]
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17659
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Reality is largely a matter of habit
[Goodman]
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8507
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Some think of reality as made of things; I prefer facts or states of affairs
[Armstrong]
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12598
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Reality is the overlap of true complete theories
[Harman]
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2329
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Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal
[Kim]
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7974
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Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality?
[Baudrillard]
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6082
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If causal power is the test for reality, that will exclude necessities and possibilities
[McGinn]
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1605
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Reality can be viewed neutrally, or as an object of desire
[Roochnik]
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9211
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A non-standard realism, with no privileged standpoint, might challenge its absoluteness or coherence
[Fine,K]
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15072
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Bottom level facts are subject to time and world, middle to world but not time, and top to neither
[Fine,K]
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15046
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Reality is a primitive metaphysical concept, which cannot be understood in other terms
[Fine,K]
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15047
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What is real can only be settled in terms of 'ground'
[Fine,K]
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15048
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In metaphysics, reality is regarded as either 'factual', or as 'fundamental'
[Fine,K]
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15060
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Why should what is explanatorily basic be therefore more real?
[Fine,K]
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21660
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Reality can be seen as the totality of facts, or as the totality of things
[Hofweber]
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