ABSTRACT

The meaning of reality in the first instance is a meaning attaching to an idea, presentation, mental content of some sort, by which its place in the spheres of existence or being is indicated. The relativity of the sorts of reality which arise together in consciousness by reason of contrasting or in some way differentiated process. Reality is not a thing or content; it is a mode of subsistence in a particular control; it has as many different shades of meaning as there are sorts of subsistence and spheres of control. The sort of reality attaching to the heap is, for aesthetic contemplation, one of a partial and incomplete form of existence. In the case of the logically false, the proposition that does not win assent fails thereby to get reality in the logical sphere; fails, that is, to be taken up into the system of truths.