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  • No! And if you keep asking questions like this, I'm going to have to write a letter to President Truman to report you!;)
  • Yes at times !
  • Yes, and at times their answers do too.
  • There are more people on here than you know that are out of touch with the real world. Read the answers and questions, you will find out real fast. but you know that. I saw an answer yesterday on health care about that. I am thinking to myself: do you know what you are talking about and do you ever actually research what you are saying. Some people will never change though.
  • Yes, all those in the religion section
  • Do you mean out of touch with what you believe your world to be?
  • Yes! No no!!! 50:50
  • 1) Some might be. But can we really know what the real world actually is? 2) "Real life is a term referring to life in the real world. It is generally used in reference to life or consensus reality in contrast with of an environment seen as fiction or fantasy, such as the Internet, virtual reality, dreams, novels, or movies. Online, the acronym IRL means "in real life" with the meaning "not on the Internet" "Real life" can be a controversial term, as it can serve as value judgement to describe "productive" activities, like work and the support of one's family, in contrast to "unproductive" leisure activities. Indeed, outside of fictional worlds, the phrase is often used to contrast a more traditional way of living against a pejoratively depicted existence such as academic life, in a manner similar to the term "real world". A person with experience in "real life" or "the real world" has experience beyond book learning. In its use as a contrast of fictional worlds or fictional universes against the consensus reality of the reader, the term has a long history: Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. —The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky In its use for differentiating personal worlds created on the Internet from "offline" life, the term naturally has a much shorter history and a more unclear future. Sociologists engaged in the study of the internet have theorized that someday a distinction between online and real life worlds may seem "quaint", noting that certain types of online activity, such as business transactions, have already made a full transition to complete legitimacy and "reality". " Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_life_(reality%29 3) "[Alexius Meinong] is most noted, however, for his Theory of Objects (Über Gegenstandstheorie, 1904), which grew out of his work on intentionality and his belief in the possibility of intending nonexistent objects. The theory is based around the purported empirical observation that it is possible to think about something, such as a golden mountain, even though that object does not exist. Since we can refer to such things that do not exist, they must have some sort of being. Meinong thus distinguishes the "being" of a thing, which it possesses in virtue of its ability to be intended toward, from a thing's "existence", which is the substantive ontological status ascribed, for example, to horses but denied to unicorns. The "place" that such things exist has been nicknamed Meinong's jungle. Historically, Meinong has been treated as an eccentric who was dealt a well-deserved death blow in Bertrand Russell's famous essay On Denoting, especially by Gilbert Ryle. However, Russell himself spoke (and wrote) highly of the vast majority of Meinong's work. Further, Meinongians such as Terence Parsons and Roderick Chisholm established the consistency of a Meinongian theory of objects, while others (e.g., Karel Lambert) have defended the usefulness of such a theory. Meinong is also seen to be controversial in the field of philosophy of language for he is often attributed to the view that "existence" is merely a property of an object, just as color or mass might be a property. Closer readers of his work, however, accept that Meinong held the view that objects are "indifferent to being" and that they stand "beyond being and non-being". On this view Meinong is expressly denying that existence is a property of an object. For Meinong, what an object is, its real essence, depends on the properties of the object. These properties are genuinely possessed whether the object exists or not, and so existence cannot be a mere property of an object." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexius_Meinong

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