Originally posted by axon
The wall street journal gives a very simple explanation and example to this rather hard to grasp subject, and I quote:


I hope this clears up the whole subject a bit.

This leads to another topic that Heidegger wrote about many years ago, and that is that only philosophers and poets will understand the world and its nature. Scientists get the raw facts, but it is the philosophers that make heads or tails of it. This might seem ridiculous, but what about Einstein and his famous quote about the moon?
YOu mean like reality is only what we perceive it to be?