How do we prove humans are more real than cabbage or fish?

I would prove that cabbage and fish are imaginary but it may take me a while to figure out how to do that.

I really don't think anything can be "more" real than any other thing that is real.

Cabbage and fish aren't real??

Wow.

You learn something new every day.

I like cabbage a lot more than I like some of my relatives.

That would be funnier if I were to explain that I'm a human first....

Humans, cabbage and fish are all part of the same reality. None are more real than the others unless you are using the term "real" in a very strange way.

However, there is always the consideration of perception. What we percieve is not what actually is; it is merely a rerendering of it. Human, cabbage and fish are all concepts that reside in our mental realm of cognition, and not attributes of the "real world". The distinctions between the three are things that we have made up, and to a creature with a different perception than that of humans the distinction may not make any sense at all. (See Kant, and his forms of perception, for example).

So cabbage and fish are merely concepts that we apply to the actual things, but so is "human". They are all abstractions we create in our minds, same as "up" and "down". The world itself knows no such distinctions.

Cabbage and fish? Why not cucumbers and cats? What kind of question is this???

That's what I thought too. Another, more interesting question might be; can you prove that our fantasies or imaginations are less real than cabbage or fish?

Thing is, I don't think anyone can.

As an absolutist, I think that everything that is real is real and everything that is not, is not.

Unfortunately, I don't think I have any way of knowing for certain which is which, including "I"

Are imaginary numbers real?

Yes.

Are they as real as real numbers?

Sure. "Imaginary" probably wasn't the best name for them.

I recall a college professor's delight upon seeing that several hundred students had signed up to see his lecture on "The Mystery of Kant" until he noticed that the student assigned to place the announcement on the board had misspelled the last word of the title.

Regarding the reality of the cabbage: Cabbage is not only real but are, in actuality, an alien race cleverly hidden among us and ready to make their move at any time.

When the earth trembles and the cabbage rise.... the day of reckoning is upon us.

For some reason this topic reminds me of my childs imaginary friend, who happened to be an imaginary horse called honk-your-horn.

How can we prove that this imaginary friend is less real than any other thing or item in her life?

Honk-your-horn is a lovely animal.

Lets all have cabbage for dinner, then get together in a closed room to discuss its existence.

Difficulty: no beano.

humans smell up the house when you cook them..... just like cabbage.

dead humans stink up the house after three days....just like fosh....

Re: How do we prove humans are more real than cabbage or fis

I don't understand. What does it mean for something to be "more real" than something else?


Consider it disregarded.


Because they are all objects of sense perception and their reality is subject to the same measures of validation and confirmation.


That's not Cartesianism, that sounds more like Berkeleyan idealism.

Live off of cabbage and fish. If they're not real you'll starve to death. If they are real you'll still be alive and healthy.

As for "more real" please explain the different levels of reality. I'm not familiar with that.