| 221 | Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato] |
| 6562 | Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux [Plato, by Fogelin] |
| 12095 | Knowledge of potential is universal and indefinite; of the actual it is definite and of individuals [Aristotle] |
| 6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
| 12752 | Only unities have any reality [Leibniz] |
| 21926 | Schopenhauer, unlike other idealists, says reality is irrational [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB] |
| 10352 | The real is the idea in which the community ultimately settles down [Peirce] |
| 22202 | The World is all experiencable objects [Husserl] |
| 5370 | Space is neutral between touch and sight, so it cannot really be either of them [Russell] |
| 22161 | Readiness-to-hand defines things in themselves ontologically [Heidegger] |
| 13934 | To be 'real' is to be an element of a system, so we cannot ask reality questions about the system itself [Carnap] |
| 17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
| 8507 | Some think of reality as made of things; I prefer facts or states of affairs [Armstrong] |
| 12598 | Reality is the overlap of true complete theories [Harman] |
| 2329 | Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal [Kim] |
| 7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
| 6082 | If causal power is the test for reality, that will exclude necessities and possibilities [McGinn] |
| 1605 | Reality can be viewed neutrally, or as an object of desire [Roochnik] |
| 9211 | A non-standard realism, with no privileged standpoint, might challenge its absoluteness or coherence [Fine,K] |
| 15072 | Bottom level facts are subject to time and world, middle to world but not time, and top to neither [Fine,K] |
| 15046 | Reality is a primitive metaphysical concept, which cannot be understood in other terms [Fine,K] |
| 15047 | What is real can only be settled in terms of 'ground' [Fine,K] |
| 15048 | In metaphysics, reality is regarded as either 'factual', or as 'fundamental' [Fine,K] |
| 15060 | Why should what is explanatorily basic be therefore more real? [Fine,K] |
| 21660 | Reality can be seen as the totality of facts, or as the totality of things [Hofweber] |