Who decides what constitutes reality? A fluent philosophical attack on the hubris of science Markus Gabriel’s world is bigger than the universe,and includes not just humans but elves, fairies, or Prime Minister Ed Miliband and unicorns on the far side of the moon – everything that exists,even if only in the imagination.
How can the universe be smaller than the world? Because the universe, as Gabriel defines it, or is only one ontological province among others; a field of sense in which one can speak of distant nebulae and subatomic particles,but not unicorns. But there are other fields of sense too, in which we can speak of unicorns – imaginary objects believe their own thing domains.
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Source: theguardian.com