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Our conditioning a are caused by places of established authority: religion, educational system, government propaganda, our high-tech media. They impose on us limiting world views, such as consumerism, patriotism, obedience.

2 Language is a tricky thing to use when describing reality. New worlds create new realities; seemingly conflicting realities, which cause tension and misunderstanding. There are so many words with different meanings that can perplex those looking into the depth of language. Perhaps the different r...

ken wrote:
What do you propose are the limits to our own understanding. I, for One, certainly do not have any limits.

Our built-in conditions of how we perceive the world, how we think and react to certain things, fear, etc.

So what is the meaning of a word? You start off by suggesting the word refers to 'reality', but then you say its meaning is unlocked by 'reason' (and that there is more than one layer of meaning). 'Reality' is usually thought off as something 'out there', independent of us, but 'reason' is somethin...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uM5QTShtPRU

Was listening to this at work.

Philosophy Explorer wrote:I can think of several possibilities. But I'm sure you have your own ideas.

PhilX

The Institution of Slavery

I wish we could make a section for complete madness, your post is nothing but pure nonsense and babble!!! You ravings would suggest that we don't need long educations when we could merely practice this "Dialectic", that way we don't need highly paid leaders, we can make children build bri...

That's a well-written post, ken. Speaking about senses, another thing to add is that they can also deceive us a bit. An example would be optical illusions; if we just rely on our five senses, we could get confused trying to make sense of them. Another difficult thing to make sense of is mapping out ...

Well, let's look at some of the ways we see reality. We can see, as what Rod pointed out, that there are various dichotomies in looking at the world: nature and civilization, war and peace, movement and stillness, freedom and restraint. What I thought about dialectic is that a point of view is propo...

Pluto wrote:

Sam I. Elle wrote:Yes, because we need to know the truth.

Why?

To have proper judgement and understanding of the things around us.

Yes, because we need to know the truth.

For most of Homo Sapien's existence, there was no language. Language did eventually arise through an evolutionary process, but it wasn't exclusively through reasoning, e.g. echoing sounds. Reasoning played a predominant role in the later stages of Homo Sapien's existence. PhilX But surely they were...

Language is a tool made by reason to understand things in reality. As new words are invented, things in reality can be articulated more clearly and profound. How language is separated from mere babble is the use of Reason that unlocks deeper meanings to that word, which can carry different yet inter...

Sounds fun and informative. I am keen to partake if you are. What is your idea of the nature of reality? Reality is infinite, in its scope and how we experience it. We can experience reality through our senses, but also our higher faculties. It's the higher faculties where we can experience the hig...