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| − | '''Reality''' is something that is really true.
| + | Reality is a place where conservatives tend not to go. In addition, they usually don't like talking about it. Hence, they live elsewhere (Texas). Instead of dealing with reality, most conservatives tend to create their own mental reality. In scientific terms, this is called schizophrenia. |
| − | Reality is mind-independent, i.e. reality would continue to be the case whether or not anyone believed it, or indeed whether or not there were any minds to believe it in the first place.
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| − | :"That which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- [[Philip K. Dick]]
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| − | Something is said to be "a fact" is, a concept, statement, thing, scientific law, or event that can been unequivocally (indisputably) proven to be true. Facts are always based on concrete verified evidence which substantiate their truth.
| + | In reality, Jesus is black. |
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| − | [[M. Scott Peck]] described ''sanity'' as "dedication to reality at all costs".
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| − | [[Ontology]] is the branch of [[philosophy]] that deals with the study of reality.
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