Scivillage.com Casual Discussion Science Forum

Such was the question of the month posed to readers of the online journal "Philosophy Now." This is the perennial question, and one that requires the flexing of thought muscles we probably didn't even know we had. On the one hand, reality is transcendent. It remains real no matter what my particular state is. OTOH, it is also immanent. I include it in my own state of being real. The paradox arises that an absolutely transcendent factuality can at the same time be encompassed by my own experience. We encompass what itself encompasses us. Reality is the set of all real things. At the same time it is an abstraction, a generalization, and a category that in itself exists nowhere than in my own mind. Are we clear now? Here's some of those readers responses to this age old question:

https://philosophynow.org/issues/61/What...Of_Reality