Reality vs Presence - What's the difference?
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The state of being actual or real.
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*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
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, title= A real entity, event or other fact.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:And to realities yield all her shows.
*(James Beattie) (1735-1803)
*:My neck may be an idea to you, but it is reality to me.
The entirety of all that is real.
An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
(lb) Loyalty; devotion.
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:To express our reality to the emperor.
Realty; real estate.
The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
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A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his audience.
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Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
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A company's business activity in a particular market.
The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts
(philosophy) To make or become present.
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* 1985 , David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen ,
* 1998 , H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry ,
* 2005 , James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry , Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804750718 (paperback),
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Reality is a related term of presence.
As nouns the difference between reality and presence
is that reality is the state of being actual or real while presence is presence.reality
English
Noun
(en-noun)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality : we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today
Synonyms
* actuality * real worldDerived terms
* reality check * reality show * reality television * virtual realitySee also
* taoAnagrams
* irately ----presence
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* absenceDerived terms
* compresence * copresence * presence of mind * real presence * stage presenceVerb
(presenc)page 59,
- Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced' without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are ' presenced .
page 59,
- Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
page 118,
- From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.