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Originally Posted by truncated
Sorry, I'm on Berkeley's side.
Objective reality exists BY human definition. How can one validate the existence of objects/the universe by a means independent of human perception? It is, by nature of our being, the only way in which to process our environment. While I wouldn't be so arrogant as to assert that there is definitively no objective reality, neither would I assert that there is.
Observable patterns of behaviors and occurrences do not by default equate an absolute. The aforementioned are digested and processed by and in terms of human consciousness, so the claim that a reality independent of perception concretely exists is an impossible one to prove.
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no way. no way. kick the fucking stone with your eyes closed. ha ha. youve been poisoned by too many postmodernists, you english major
