'Reality' should always be in quotes.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Reality is subjective or constructed, so we should treat it as a concept needing scrutiny.
- In plain terms
- Reality depends on perspective.
- What can you take from it?
- Question assumptions about what is real.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Whose reality is this?
- How is it defined?
Another view
Some realities like physical laws are objective.
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