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· 1 year ago
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Well… yes… but no? In the sense that our reality as we know it is purely perceptive and we cannot prove reality exists or even that we exist- yea. But in a less philosophical and more practical sense some things are just fact. “Everyone does eventually..” well… we don’t KNOW that- putting asides the possibility for demigods or immortals walking among us, maybe not everyone dies. Maybe death isn’t real. Maybe no one exists and so no one can die and this is all a hallucination or simulation or something… but in practical terms. Yeah. Everyone dies. Of course this is just my opinion technically. And the opinion of millions, billions, of others. But this meme disproves itself because saying that something is my opinion is your opinion. Saying that stating it isn’t an opinion but a fact IS an opinion is.. your opinion.
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· 1 year ago
Hence the practicality and consensus of fact. If we approach every interaction from a point that hypothetically nothing is real and all perception is opinion or subjective- that what we see may not be real- then how can we do or think anything? We could sit here all day refuting each others stances and it will always circle around to one of us saying that is the opinion of the other. At some point practicality demands we place a stake in what is reality, and usually that is done through applying certain apparently consistent metrics and finding some majority consensus to reinforce our belief. Thusly gravity is real, the moon exists even if no one we know has ever touched it or seen it up close in person, etc.
