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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

But that are two different things, are they not?

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 3 years ago

    That really depends on which philosophy you subscribe to.

    The TL;DR is that existential and post-modern philosophy say it's varying degrees of relative, while everything anyone said before ~1800 was saying that facts were immutable.

    One fact I can glean is that the data itself may be real (e.g., the wavelengths of light that hit your eyeballs) but the perception is a composite illusion of our mind (e.g., the fact that you just saw a kitty).

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