What is real?

What is real?

1. Plato

   • Idealism
   • We can't perceive the world throughout our senses (It's a shadow)
   • The truth exists more clearly in our minds than in the real world
   • Truth cannot be understand by analysing the world
   • Truth exists and we can use math to find it
   • Abstract mystic thought

2. Aristotle

   • Empiricism
   • The world exists because we can see it
   • We learn throughout observation and analysis
   • Principles of science
   • Arts and practices help us understand our world (experience)
   • Causes and Essences (what and why?)

3. Ontology

   • Theory of being

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