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  • Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through one's senses. The term ...
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  • It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between appearance and reality is, and has always been, one of the principal focal ...
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  • While all forms of idealism stress the reality of the mind over that ... immaterialism), was intended to defend the reality of the world of spirit and ...
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  • it also includes various kinds of virtual reality (which is the experience ... in Laser tag) take the form of augmented reality rather than cyberspace, ...
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  • arc segments appear to form a spiral; in reality, the arcs are a series of ... rope against a checkerboard pattern. In reality, the arcs that make up the ...
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  • He characterized the ultimate reality as “one” and “whole.” ... The sharp distinction between the world of unchanging true reality ...
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  • as ideas and in what sense they refer to a reality or have a reality all their ... higher ontological status and so a greater reality. For this reason, the many ...
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  • to refer to the unknowable, indescribable reality that, in some way, lies ... intuition, we could perceive the reality of things in themselves ...
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  • freedom was the fundamental metaphysical reality upon which all else is based ... was the basic or ultimate metaphysical reality. Prior to everything else ...
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  • It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between appearance and reality is, and has always been, one of the principal focal ...
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  • Empedocles conceived the ultimate reality as the unity of four permanent ... While Parmenides understood the ultimate reality as a homogeneous ...
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  • of objective truth and values, replaced reality with appearance, and reduced ... beliefs and perspectives. ontologically, reality was replaced and reduced ...
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  • free or an interpretation-free objective reality. In visual perception ... presupposed the existence of objective reality (Ideas for Plato; objective ...
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  • image is in fact darker than the other. In reality, both sections are the same. ... separated by a thin band of gradient. In reality, the two squares are exactly ...
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  • an objectively knowable, mind-independent reality, while acknowledging the ... and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality. It is most explicitly articulated ...
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  • Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through one's senses. The term ...
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  • vajra also symbolizes for the nature of reality, or sunyata. ... the vajra is a symbol for the nature of reality, or sunyata, indicating ...
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  • existing forms of idealism (affirming the reality of a spiritual or ideal ... of them as they are. In other words, reality, as it is known, is determined ...
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  • purpose of philosophy was not to construct reality, but to discover the structural ... that man’s capacity to “know” reality was limited by his own existence ...
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  • The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality consists of many different things or kinds of things. In this sense ...
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  • the dogmatic position divorced from reality, but ultimately, in its ... as unduly restricting the scope of human reality, in particular the religious ...
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  • the limiting concept, not an independent reality. Maimon agreed with Kant ... of the divine mind, able to comprehend reality ever more completely. Perfect ...
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  • of monism, the concept that all reality is one and there are no ... rejected pluralism, the view that reality consists of many objects ...
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  • produce forms in the physical word, 2) the reality produced by this process ... Brahman. Maya is the power that brings all reality into being as it is perceived ...
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  • between the internal person and the external reality #The superego ... a person is aware of at any given moment (reality). The preconscious may be ...
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  • a single, eternal, and immutable ultimate reality. His view is not monistic ... ideal of modern philosophy rather than a reality, and it met with serious ...
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  • such as solipsism (the denial of any reality outside of the individual ... waves. We perceive a representation of reality (not the reality itself ...
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  • Atoms are in constant motion. Democritus argued for the reality of ... by convention; color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone ...
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  • #039;s best means of getting in touch with reality, Plato held that human reasoning ... reliable access to the basic features of reality as envisioned by Plato and ...
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  • the experience of the "clear light of reality," or at least the nearest ... # The chonyid bardo or "bardo of the experiencing of reality ...
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  • Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929). Process thought ... Whitehead argued that reality consists of entities called "units ...
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  • within Hinduism dealing with the nature of reality, one of the six ... the Upanishads, that of the one absolute reality termed Brahman, is the main ...
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  • enclosed, definable, discrete and enduring reality. For instance, if we examine ... same time not different from the kind of reality which we normally ascribe ...
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  • to seek peace in acceptance of that reality. It is a primarily existential ... nature of all knowledge and of all reality as perceived by reason. ...
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  • and humanity’s perception of natural reality. Modern natural philosophy ... the fundamental features of natural reality and their implications for ...
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  • The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...
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  • philosophy (and even for Descartes), the reality of the universe was guaranteed ... Solipsism limits reality, but also knowledge of that reality to one’s ...
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  • ===Reality and Appearance=== of unchanging, permanent truth or reality, the world is dissolved ...
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  • the two red lines, they appear to bow inwards. In reality, they are perfectly straight and parallel. ==Explanation== The distorted appearance ...
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  • philosophers is the common view that reality cannot be simply grasped. For Heraclitus, genuine reality is the ever present logos at the heart ...
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  • Belief and faith in the true reality of the Tathagatagarbha is presented ... just a metaphor with no actual ontological reality behind it in the here and ...
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  • in our dreams refer to some outward reality, we nevertheless can consider ... this god is really tricking us and in reality it equals 5. Descartes likens ...
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  • Personalism is a philosophical perspective that holds that the person has its own autonomy, values, and reality, which are irreducible to any ...
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  • The imagination conjures a description of reality out of ever-changing phenomena ... ===Themes: Imagination and Reality=== Stevens is very much a poet of ...
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  • Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...
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  • the senses give us a misleading picture of reality, and that only by using ... in direct contact with the true nature of reality. As Aquinas saw it (drawing ...
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  • . The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept ... The Wisdom Buddhas are all aspects of the dharmakaya or "reality ...
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  • manifestation; and, 3) the Dharmakaya (reality body), which embodies the ... Dharmakaya literally means Truth body, or Reality body. On another occasion ...
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  • structures and shapes his perception of reality. In Die Philosophie der ... science to mythology, were not modeled on reality, but modeled it. ...
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  • a sense, it was the starting point of all reality, which it created through ... way in which human consciousness grasps reality by striving to isolate the ...
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  • When the proposition accords with the reality, the proposition is "true ... correspond nor is contrary to the fact or reality, that is, if the sentence ...
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  • distinction between appearance and reality as simply a stage in the ... the distinction between appearance and reality as a distinction between ...
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