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You spend about 8 hours per day in something other than this definition of the “real” world.

Levels of reality imply levels of truth.




Oh, of course there's truth, and it's something to be concerned about. I just mean to say that philosophizing in a way cognizant of our status of living, acting things as opposed to truth-generating machines makes a lot of sense, particularly because there's going to be a level of uncertainty that pervades all our knowledge. But uncertainty shouldn't paralyze us into never-ending rational analysis.




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