What do we mean by reality?
Existence, appearance, experience and explanation: a practical introduction to the questions that connect this collection.
REALITY & TIME · EXISTENCE AND THE WORLD WE EXPERIENCE
Planned article
Temporal terms in their intellectual contexts
Compare the use of key Arabic terms across authors, emphasizing contextual differences and documented translation choices.
This topic is part of the planned collection. Its full article is still to come. The following existing resources offer a starting point.
Explore existing reading
Read the first essays
Appearance and what appears
Use two viewpoints to distinguish appearances that agree, and connect observable comparisons with the reconstruction of physical reality.
Change and what persists
Follow an oscillator through constant energy, changing phase and damping to distinguish preserved quantities, states and histories.
Objects events and processes
Trace a classical message between registers to compare object, event and process descriptions and identify what a complete mechanism must specify.
Related planned topics
- Science and symbolic cosmology — planned
- Paths into the primary sources — planned
- Reading the Futuhat alongside the Fusus — planned
- Medieval debates about time and creation — full essay