2006-10-31 00:26:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
For the sake of discussion and study,yes,but not absolutely.
2006-10-31 00:54:40 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there is. there are several good answers here. I would like to add that, even though humans are not impartial, we can still learn something about objective reality. Example: two people witness a murder. one claims that the attacker was 5'10, the other person claims 6'0. There is an objective reality, a man with a specific height committed a murder.We don't know the height of the man, but we can know that a murder was committed by him. We will probably never know the whole picture, but we can still learn some parts of objective reality.
2006-10-31 01:07:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there is such a thing.
I don't have the time to argue about that here, but i will say just this: Each time, we must define the situation. If we do, then the objective reality is something real.
A "event" is something specific, so it is absolute as "event". The problem is that if we have many points of view (or many observing locations), then we have more or less or different information's about the event and this can lead to different opinions. But the "event" is something absolute. If a meteor falls to earth, it is not important if we saw it or not.
2006-10-31 00:41:05 · answer #3 · answered by CORE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The tangible objects around us. The computer monitors & phone in front of me. The desk and keyboard, clipboard, papers, chair etc. It's just that the describing of it is so imperfect & memory so fallible that it's hard to recreate that reality for someone else unless they are in it with me & even then they may not focus on all the things that I do. Perception is flawed & limited. Reality is relative.
2006-10-31 01:26:03 · answer #4 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is and I've always found the Aristotelians (I don't think I can spell today!) and the Scholastics to be the most satisfying on this point. Also read some of the neo-Thomistic philosophers.
I also like Woody Allen who said if there is no objective reality, he overpaid for the carpet!
2006-10-31 01:04:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all view reality using our own filters. Ask five people who witnessed an event what happened and you'll get five different answers. Therefore there is objective reality, what really happened. However, we can never know what it is because we have only our own imperfect view of the world.
2006-10-31 00:38:47 · answer #6 · answered by Jabberwock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the perception of corporeal phenomenon, external stimuli strike and impinge upon the instruments of the senses, and corporeal phenomenon precedes mental activity, an activity that stimulates the mind and brings up the dormant forms within, consider a being free of all corporeal influence. He can rouse his mind to activity without the need of corporeal objects. In doring this he stimulates his mind under his own guidance. From here his mind contemplates uninterrupted, and anything that is uninterrupted, is infinite.
2006-10-31 01:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality is exclusively Objective. It cares about nothing and no-one. People try to change reality by putting their spin on it.
2006-10-31 00:37:32 · answer #8 · answered by FrogDog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is ONLY ONE reality, be it objective or subjective.
2006-10-31 00:31:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think yes. I'm not a good philosopher but I think that people and things that surround us are real
You may touch them, can talk to them and they influence us. Feelings that we get from them are more important than any philosophical rubbish
But it is my subjective opinion
2006-10-31 00:33:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋