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Is there a thing such as reality?
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eIs there a thing such as reality? Charlotte Walter 11B TOK 18/12/2007 Reality is one of the hardest subjects to discuss, mainly because everyone has their own definition of reality. The most known is `a state of things as they actually exist´ 1 . Certain ideas from physics, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism shape various theories of reality. Philosophers for example mostly address two different aspects; the nature of reality itself and the relationship between mind and reality. As to physicists, they state ´prior to observation nothing can be said about a physical system other than a probability function which seems to be definable to a degree by assumptions about the system's elements´. This even leads to disbelief of reality where they are independent on their own consciousness choices as observers. To have an opinion on what reality is and what your own belief is, you will first need to know what the...
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