external reality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexternalandreality
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external
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/us/ɪkˈstɝː.nəl/
of, on, for, or coming from ...
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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 ofexternalandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But science is all about modeling objectiveexternalreality, a truth that science presupposes to exist.
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There is a variable imbalance in psychiatric disorders between constraints of the internal attunement and constraints fromexternalreality.
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Both the painting and the visual image could thus be regarded as equivalent projections of anexternalreality.
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These are clearly species-specific "user-interface" simplifications ofexternalreality.
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Retinal smear during saccades must be prevented from reaching perception because it is an artifact of rapid eye motion rather than anexternalreality.
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Cognitive theories are criticized for explaining this in terms of a misattribution toexternalreality.
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But intuitionistic or linear logic are not about anexternalreality, they are about themselves, about their own rules.
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And yet that very evaluation, that very assignment of values, was the product of anexternalreality.
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None had much faith in the idea that truth was defined by the correlation of propositional statements to someexternalrealityor facts.
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Both began to question the absolute authority ofexternalreality.
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Again,externalrealityis not the starting point for building the model but is drawn on selectively when it can strengthen an assumption in the math.
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More likely, dreams and hallucinations reveal the capabilities of an imaging system that is normally driven by the sensory input, generating perceptual constructs that are coupled toexternalreality.
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This denial or disavowal of anexternalrealityforegrounds the fetishistic nature of representation itself, in accordance with the notion that art is always only a representation of a representation.
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Radical critiques of interviews indicate that rather than giving an accurate description ofexternalrealitythey are grounded in the context in which they are produced.
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Winnicott (1985) told of the value of 'apperception', a preparedness of mind and body to receive and to give in dialogue withexternalreality, a harbinger of creativity.
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Hobson suggests that this kind of triangulation of the three components : child, adult andexternalreality, is of essential importance for the development of self and understanding of other selves.
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It would be good, and we would have enough time, if this were not theexternalreality.
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Dreaming is thus a virtual reality experience with a remarkably predictive simulation ofexternalreality.
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