physical reality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphysicalandreality
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physical
adjective
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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reality
noun
uk/riˈæl.ə.ti/us/riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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(Definition ofphysicalandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It seems possible in this case that all three types of solution may correspond tophysicalrealityunder some atmospheric and initial conditions.
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The primacy of subjectivity, which is "merely constrained" by externalphysicalreality, is clear.
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Social space provided aphysicalrealityin which restrictions, limitations, divisions and separations of bodies were enacted.
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The submanifold is defined by physical laws, and therefore, the associated mental contents are dictated byphysicalreality.
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A straightforward mapping of a physical theory built for aphysicalrealityonto a social reality could be rather misleading.
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Those laws are always worked on as governingphysicalrealityand modern developments have changed nothing in this respect.
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These three components of variance are inferred from the data and may or may not correspond tophysicalreality.
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In any case, animals can only pick out a subset of thephysicalreality.
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The relationships and activities among language,physicalreality, and interpretant provide the matrix out of which place organises itself.
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It is not aphysicalreality, although many concepts refer to things in the physical world.
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Philologists first examine documents in theirphysicalreality, studying and evaluating the support media.
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It is difficult to see that this distinction between mathematical andphysicalrealitycan bear the weight required of it.
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A corporation is a legal conception, but neither aphysicalrealitynor an organism.
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Though complementary descriptions cannot be provided simultaneously, each is required for the description of some aspects ofphysicalreality.
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Nineteenth-centur y science accepted without question the idea thatphysicalrealityis continuous.
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But what force do we associate with voices whose source is obscured, seeming without ground inphysicalreality?
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The ecological approach rejects the assumption that the relation between potential sensory stimulation andphysicalrealityis ambiguous.
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Here she clearly assigns old age aphysicalrealityyet argues that we can manipulate this constancy.
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