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  Reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Axioms are self-evident realities, the existence of which is accepted as given and on which further conceptions are generated.
In philosophy, reality is contrasted with nonexistence (penguins do exist; so they are real) and mere possibility (a mountain made of gold is merely possible, but is not real) unless they are discovered.
In psychiatry, reality, or rather, the idea of being in touch with reality is integral to the notion of schizophrenia, since it has often been defined in part by reference to being "out of touch" with reality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reality   (3032 words)

  
 Objectivity [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Consequent judgments are objective or subjective to varying degrees, and we divide reality into objective reality and subjective reality.
Opposing skepticism regarding objective reality, it is conceivable that there are “markers” of some sort in our subjective experiences distinguishing the reliable perceptions of objective truth from the illusions generated purely subjectively (hallucinations, misperceptions, perceptions of secondary qualities, etc.).
Descartes famously emphasized that subjective reality is better known than objective reality, but knowledge of the objective reality of one’s own existence as a non-physical thinking thing is nearly as basic, or perhaps as basic, as one’s knowledge of the subjective reality of one’s own thinking.
www.iep.utm.edu /o/objectiv.htm   (4471 words)

  
 Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Denial of the objectivity of chance is called Determinism, which leads to the fatalistic view that everything is necessarily as it is and predetermined.
Denial of the objectivity of Necessity, the idea that historical events are the outcome of the chance occurences and individual actions, etc., is associated with Voluntarism.
Objective stages in development of a process reflecting the existence or absence of the conditions for its occurrence.
www.marxists.org /reference/archive/hegel/help/glossary.htm   (8430 words)

  
 THE UNIVERSE AS A HOLOGRAM... DOES OBJECTIVE REALITY EXIST... OR IS THE UNIVERSE A PHANTASM?
At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously.
We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram.
This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it has galvanized others.
www.spiritual-endeavors.org /seth/hologram.htm   (3404 words)

  
 Psychosis - Definition
Psychosis is a symptom of mental illness characterized by a radical change in personality and a distorted or diminished sense of objective reality.
Patients suffering from psychosis are unable to distinguish the real from the unreal.
They experience hallucinations and/or delusions that they believe are real, and they typically behave in an inappropriate and confused manner.
www.minddisorders.com /Ob-Ps/Psychosis.html   (280 words)

  
 Wiki Pedia
There is a legitimate worry that the wikipedia has taken more than one step down the path of an official POV, and has left objective reality out of the debate between the groupthink of the administrators, and the "fringe" views expressed by some newbies.
If you keeping looking for pure objectivism in a subjective world, you are going to be like Diogenes searching for truly honest man - an unnecessary chore since people are equipped to handle nuances of subjective reality as a matter of course.
Failed by encouraging political BS, WoodenLanguage and Kafkian bureaucracy, together with crackpots and crackheads that discourage any real experts from wasting their energies on the subjects that suffer any form of contention.
www.c2.com /cgi/wiki?WikiPedia   (3985 words)

  
 Colour Theory
It contains objective laws of psycho-optics as well as subjective value judgments.
Taste after all does have its roots in objective reality.
One closing thought ‹ to quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica; "Artists and designers have been studying the effects of colours for centuries and have developed a multitude of theories on the uses of colour.
www.luminous-landscape.com /tutorials/colour_theory.shtml   (1759 words)

  
 objective - Definitions from Dictionary.com
A noun or pronoun in the objective case.
The lens or lens system in a microscope or other optical instrument that first receives light rays from the object and forms the image.
1 : of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers reality>
dictionary.reference.com /search?q=objective   (291 words)

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