My Diari

Reality is real and unreality is nonexistent.

"Reality pertains to that which is possible and, ‘greatest possibilities of life’, reality may be construed as the limitations imposed upon one’s own existential potential on the basis of one’s own everchanging past. One’s life potential contains a measure, ultimately provided by death, which cannot be known entirely beforehand, but which possesses binding limitations, and these curtail the possibilities, making them into concretized experiences; our futurity bleeds into the present and upon our past, thrusting upon us the realities of our existence. Here the phenomena of a ‘harsh’ reality exposes us to these limitations in which something of what we hoped to be possible appears impossible, for the limitations we encounter, past or present, exceed what we had expected, or the facilities we hoped for fail to appear. Thus, in phenomenological terms, reality might best be construed as the limitations imposed upon our possibilities with the possibilities themselves, taken together."

Truth

When two or more individuals agree upon the interpretation and experience of a particular event, a consensus about an event and its experience begins to be formed. This being common to a few individuals or a larger group, then becomes the ‘truth’ as seen and agreed upon by a certain set of people. Thus one particular group may have a certain set of agreed truths, while another group might have a different set of truths that have reached consensus. This lets different communities and societies have varied and extremely different notions of reality and truth of the external world. The religion and beliefs of people or communities are a fine example of this level of reality. "It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear." However, humans are fallible and are limited to individual experience. Truth cannot simply be considered truth if one speaks and another hears because individual bias and fallibility take away any assertion that the idea of truth, itself, exists.

Fact

A fact or factual entity is a phenomenon that is perceived as an elemental principle. It is rarely one that could be subject to personal interpretation. Instead it is most often the observed phenomena of the natural world. The proposition ‘the sun rises in the east’, is a fact. It is a fact for people belonging to any group or nationality regardless of which language they speak or which part of the hemisphere they come from. The Galilean proposition in support of the Copernican theory, that the sun is the centre of the solar system is one that states the fact of the natural world. However during his lifetime Galileo was ridiculed for that factual proposition, because far too few people had a consensus about it in order to accept it as a truth. Fewer propositions are factual in content in the world, as compared to the many truths shared by various communities, which are also fewer to the innumerable individual phenomenological realities.

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