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Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real.

Alan Moore#25

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About this quote

What does it mean?
Physical reality is presented as simple and measurable.
In plain terms
Real things are solid and can be measured.
What can you take from it?
Reality is the tangible world around you.

Where it applies

  • philosophical debates
  • discussions on existence
  • scientific observation

Putting it to work

  • grounding thoughts
  • questioning reality
  • observing the world

Questions to consider

  • What else counts as real?
  • Is everything measurable?

Another view

It ignores subjective or abstract realities.

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