If your reality is defined by your context, does reality exist?

Answer 1

I’ll rephrase you question as I understand it: ‘If our personal experience of reality is accepted to be subjective, does an objective reality exist?’

Objective reality presupposes the reality outside of the experience of it. As soon as reality is observed or experienced, what is experienced we call subjective. Does this change anything regarding the unobserved objective reality? Well, yes, as each subjective entity acts within the objective reality based on its perception and understanding of it and so influences the composition of it as it is intrinsically part of it. So, the objective reality includes all realities, including all subjective ones. Of course logically only subjective experience of reality exist, with each subjective component existing independently, isolated from and separate from all others, though connected through the shared realm of reality, the world outside in which we exist and act.

This concludes that objective reality exists, though cannot be observed, for as soon as observation takes place, we call it subjective.

The above explanation of course is a function of logic, reflecting our rational understanding of the nature of reality where we as individuals exist within and form part of a greater world ‘outside’ of us as opposed to the world of conscious experience ‘inside’. Yet, logically we may conclude equally validly that all we can attest to exist is our own experience, from which we can conclude, as Descartes, that I exist. I we follow this logic; nothing can be proved incontrovertibly to exist besides the experience of the self. Thus all is a function of I, although the conscious aspect of the I does not necessarily determine or create or control the environment or context which it finds itself in. This leads one to assume another aspect of the I to be responsible for our context, an unconscious part pre-programmed with all the function of the reality it composes, such as space, time, scale, form or shape, figure and ground, colour and light and dark. If this aspect of the I does not form part of that which is conscious, can we still classify it or group it with the I? Is the I of the self only that part which experiences? If it is, then the context is apart from it, not I, but outside of the I, a reality apart from it. This of course is very much the same as what we called the objective aspect of reality, that which is not caused from the experiencing I, but is experienced by the I as not I.

So, does objective reality exist outside of the logical necessity of it? I think it does, though it cannot be proven. Whatever your assumption or presupposition, it is based on a point of view, a choice made for one and against the other. It comes down to what you believe it to be, or what convinces you most in spite of any lack of evidence that proves it once and for all. By the way, even God cannot be said to experience reality objectively, as, even if it be said he sees all and knows all, he does so merely through the eyes of God. Thus asking him whether objective reality exist, even if we exist, will only tell you what he believes.

Answer 2

As long as you have a context then you have a definition for your reality.
But then, assuming you have a context, what kind of definition will you get? I mean is a definition of reality the same as a definition of a whisky, which may be determined largely by the definer, or is it more similar to the definition of a mug, or something less open to perspective, to be perceived differntly by different individuals?
Furthermore, I am not sure a definition necessitates the existence of the thing being defined. I can define a dodo, or a Kirin, or Ra but do these things actually exist?

Answer 3

Let us accept that realty is defined by your context. Then, reality must be a subjective entity, meaning that it's nature depends on your own personal definition. So, reality as a single objective entity does not exist, but it exists in the sense that we all have a certain conception if it.

Answer 4

Well that comes down to 'what is reality?' Essentially, 'reality' is just our perception: we seeing X does not incontrovertibly mean that X, and likewise reality might not be what we think. Yet... if reality is Y, what the f*ck is Y? We have no way of defining Y, and to all intents and purposes, if we see Y as X, then it IS X, because that is our frame of reference.

Answer 5

i think of you have way too lots time on your arms. Do me a choose pass over to the wall and bang your head on the wall...this is okay i'm going to attend..........stable you're back now i recognize that injury...wager what reality!!!!!! definite Virginia reality does exist. Now as far because of the fact the be conscious fake is going, examine the dictionary and you will locate that faux potential a facsimile of something, an imitation. There now does not that make you experience greater useful....Now pass take some aspirin it will help your headache.

Answer 6

Reality exists in our minds, so it might be different one among each others. Life would be boring if there is only one reality. The problem happens when one imposes her/his reality to others, worse with violent.
By the way, are you sure that you exist? Or it is only in your mind? ^_^

Answer 7

Reality is relative.Absolute reality is a myth and you cannot find it out.Sun rises in the East is truth or reality.But Sun never rise or set,it is the relative motion of Earth that creates"the illusion".Then what is 'reality" ?

Answer 8

Reality exist, but you and I can't see it physically with our eyes some things are hidden. In order to have any connection to reality, we must believe in GOD, thru Jesus, a higher authority, Theres this one particular story where a man sees an angel of GOD, what happens after this the man Say's I was shaken as though i was asleep, then I was shown the vision of the Lord in a trance eyes wide open Numbers 24:4.

Answer 9

Reality is more than what one can reach out and touch-it is energy in the air and all of the people's thoughts--one can be in prison and still be free so reality is in our mental capacity and in our heart and in our soul.--life is simple --man makes it complicated, you can not touch the stars (literally) but they are reality--see what I mean? Confucius said "there are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety, being wise, he is free from perplexity, being brave, he is free from fear. All the knowledge in the world though will not make us free or show us what true reality is --reality can be two-fold--just trying to make a difference is what I do for me.

Answer 10

Your question could be called a non-sequitur, as contextual reality is a big pre-supposition, with the trailing question not logically following.