Tag: Reality

• January 10, 2025

  Are You Real?

  Suppose you dreamed last night about being a newborn infant. In the dream, you grew up. Later on, you saw your aunt get old, fall into sickness, and die. In this dream, you came to believe and feel that your life was unfolding within the temporal domain bounded by birth and death. You felt, above…
• May 10, 2012

  Descartes’ materalism (III)

  III The medieval worldview effected a happy if strenuous synthesis between Aristotelian cosmology and Christian theology. The appeal of Aristotle’s conception of the cosmos was that it made nature intelligible to human comprehension. The cosmos was anthropocentric in design, finite in size, spherical in shape, and interconnected in and out, top to bottom–from the mutable…