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reality explained :-)

Submitted by Loek (guest) on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 4:58am.

Hi Owl,

The origin of the word is clear: re has to do with 'res' in Latin meaning 'thing' and the suffix -al means 'kind of' or 'having the form of' and the suffix -ity meaning 'a state or condition'. Implying that reality means the state of kind of things. Because of the two suffices it is actually a word with three layers and is there best interpreted as (state of (kind of (things))). It is therefore highly left unclear what reality might be and hence can be translated freely with 'whatever'.

With kind regards,

Loek

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