He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt Reality is the actuality of things, what is really happening, without interpretation. Perception is that interpretation of the experience. Let's say for example that the reality of things may be that you are i...

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Locke discussed the modes of the simple ideas of reflection such as remembering, reasoning and judging. ... Like Descartes, Locke trusts that God assures the reliability of his sensory beliefs. Locke's belief in the existence of God is argumentative. ... John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. ... Hume Defuse the threat to empiricism. ...

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