Because perceptual knowledge arises from contact of the sense organs with reality that is present, dharma that is not an existent reality but a future course of action cannot possibly be known by sense-experience.
There is, for example, the view that evil is not an actually existent reality but rather the absence of some good, such as sight, health, love, or moral virtue.
In so doing, the poet becomes more than a mere descriptive versifier, transposing into poetic form an already existent reality; he becomes a veritable God, creating something from nothing, conjuring up for the reader, as Mallarmé himself put it, "l'absente de tous bouquets"—the ideal flower that is absent from all real bouquets.
Perhaps it's because I've just finished the Netflix series Stranger Things that I'm preoccupied with different yet co-existent realities, playing out on different planes simultaneously.
It's a word generally left untranslated in philosophy meaning roughly existence, an existent being, life, a life form; in French it can mean something like "human reality," the time of existence.
In the same book of the Rigveda, mythology begins to be transformed into philosophy; for example, "In the beginning was the nonexistent, from which the existent arose". Even the reality of the nonexistent is questioned: "Then there was neither the nonexistent nor the existent". Such cosmogonic speculations continue, particularly in the older Upanishads.
VR environments are typically used in these fields for planned and designed realities, not yet existent or with nonexistent components.
Existence is not to be identified with the conjunctive property of being real and being spatiotemporal, for McTaggart held that no existent is spatiotemporal.[37] Moreover, reality is not to be identified with existence, since it is conceptually possible that something might be real without existing.
Finally, metaphysics is a study of immaterial and motionless things (cf. Metaph. Ε, 1, 1026a13 23), since both the First Causes and God, on the one hand, and "the existent qua existent", on the other, are realities of this kind.
That is, insight into reality is not held to be beyond thought, or attributed to some third category beyond the world that is neither existent nor nonexistent, but is simply insight into a world that is neither (ultimately) existent nor (conventionally) nonexistent.
