The statement "reality is a relative concept" itself is a contradiction of sorts. It attempts to define the statement as an absolute itself-to say that "reality is relative" somehow attempts to "coerce" others to accept it as some sort of absolute truth. Kind of a nonsense too. Not because there is no such thing as absolute truth, as many are wont to say. But that it is perhaps absolute truth is unknowable. Not to us living in the physical world, anyway. And that, is the real meaning behind reality is a relative concept. There i go again, contradicting myself.
So, there is a certain appeal in being indifferent. Indifferent does not mean one does not care. It simply means i don't impose my beliefs on others for my perception of reality is only a representation of "things as they seem" in my mind.
"...the gap between things as they seem and things as they are; and the problem consists in our having to justify our claims to know how physical objects are on the basis of knowing only how they seem."~ A. J. Ayer, 1956.
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