{"id":1352,"date":"2023-02-09T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:24:26","slug":"the-concept-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"The Concept of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThe concept of Reality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is based upon a fallacy\u201d,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said the Flying Fish<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the doe-eyed Unicorn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who was polishing her horn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her beautiful cloven front hooves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sang the rhapsodist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whose sweet voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issued from beneath eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which gleamed in the fiery flickering flames<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of a bright wood fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that clearing on Chios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As reported to me by Critias<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we sat at the party on the flat, kennelled, roof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of that house in the Kerameikos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we looked<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Towards the star-lit Akropolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Write I against the margin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of a black Welsh night”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt is an abstraction\u201d, he said, \u201cand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence does not exist\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The unicorn gazed at him quizzically<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that look in her eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which he found most attractive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEach of us carry our own reality\u201d, he said, \u201cand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The language which we use<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is perfectly submissive to this fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weight of the meaning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind the words which we use<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is entirely dependent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon our own reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You interpret the words which I use<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of your own reality,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is not the same as my reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It therefore follows that each word<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has a multiplicity of meanings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For each person who exists,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For each reality that exists, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All meanings cannot be known to each user\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Ian David Wall 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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