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external world

noun

Definitions

  1. The world consisting of all the objects and events which are experienceable or whose…

    The world consisting of all the objects and events which are experienceable or whose existence is accepted by the human mind, but which exist independently of the mind.

    • Human beings are able to form ideas that correspond in some way with a real world, outside of themselves. . . . [T]o each necessary relation a:b in human consciousness, there corresponds a relation A:B in the external world.
    • Is not a vast "background" of experience what we all really mean by an external world, or God, according to the mood we are in?
    • Skeptics . . . claim that our evidence can't support our beliefs about the external world.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for external world. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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