"Reality" [is] a quality appertaining to phenomena that we recognize as having a being independent of our own volition (we cannot "wish them away).... [an] order [that] is relative to a particular socio-historical situation [but] appears to the individual as the natural way of looking at the world.
Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality
Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality
To my mind, both of these definitions of "reality" suffer from being wonderfully partial. Neither is an encompassing thing and each borders on being totally irrelevant to the other!
ReplyDeleteReality is like that.
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