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Ideas for 'Ways of Worldmaking', 'Is There a Marxist Doctrine?' and 'On 'The Beginning of Philosophy''

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

17659	Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman]
	Full Idea: Reality in a world, like realism in a picture, is largely a matter of habit.
	From: Nelson Goodman (Ways of Worldmaking [1978], 1.6)
	A reaction: I'm a robust realist, me, but I sort of see what he means. We become steeped in unspoken conventions about how we take our world to be, and filter out anything that conflicts with it.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

17657	We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman]
	Full Idea: We dismiss as illusory or negligible what cannot be fitted into the architecture of the world we are building.
	From: Nelson Goodman (Ways of Worldmaking [1978], 1.4d)
	A reaction: I'm trying to think of an example of this, but can't. Maybe poor people are invisible to the rich?