Definition Essay - Defining Reality -- Expository Definition Essays

Definition Essay Defining RealityThe singularity that causes the most trouble in philosophy is the distinction between behavior and reality, between what things seem to be and what they are. The painter wants to know what things seem to be, the virtual(a) man and the philosopher want to know what they are. . . . but if reality is not what appears, take we whatsoever means of knowing whether there is any reality at all? - Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy In everyday life people blot between the real size of the sun and the size it appears to be, between the inhering components of a cloud (a concentration of water droplets) and what the cloud seems to be (some brushed substance?), and so on. However, when arguing of the reality of such things, how can any phy...