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32480, You spell out a logical answer and then contend it.
Posted by moot_point, Mon May-23-05 07:02 AM
>>>so everything you've posted in here is a metaphor? for
>>what?
>>>what is it a metaphor for? objective reality?
>
>Question: did you answer the question?
>Answer: no

What are you talking about? The answer is written underneath this. Language is a metaphor for the object world, not objective reality.
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>>Language does describe the object world (it describes other
>>things as well), but this defines our subjective reality.
>
>what is your subjective reality?

My subjective reality is everything that exists in my head. No reality exists beyond this.

>
>>There ARE highly valid subjective notions, which can be
>>tested. For example, the light switch analogy that InVerse
>>stressed. However, in the final analysis they remain
>>subjective because this 'reality' is created and expressed
>by
>>the mind...
>
>wrong. the mind is the part of objective reality that allows
>you the subject to perceive this reality, by constructing
>understandings of reality...subjectivity...imaginary
>landscapes, social theory, works of fiction etc etc etc etc.
>So Basically what you are saying to me is that you are living
>in your head...


This is mixed up. Objective reality is a contradiction in terms. Tell me something that is 'real' that your mind didn't conceive. You can't. All reality is subjective. Therefore yes, I am living in my head. So too are you.