An Unprejudiced Inquiry into The Question of Being
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Joseph Polanik wrote:
> in general, the phrase ‘metaphenomenal reality’ references a reality
> beyond the phenomenon. in a specific case, it is the reality which is
> correlated with the phenomenon in question. a metaphenomenal reality is
> of type 1 (existential) or of type 3 (ontological). as indicated in a
> previous post, I accept as true that the experience (a phenomenological
> reality, type 2) of seeming to have a body is due to actually having a
> physical body (existential, type 1).
>
> for example, in the case of the moon illusion, the moon as it appears is
> the phenomenological reality — the experience of seeing the moon near
> the horizon seeming to be larger than normal. however, it is known that
> the correlated metaphenomenal reality, the physical moon, does not
> expand and contract in size. there is then a correlation between the
> type 1 and type 2 realities; and, there is a difference between them.
Descartes himself answers such naive realism in the First Meditation.
There is no evidence of any “metaphenomenal reality,” since anything you
try to cite as evidence can be equally present when there is no such
metaphenomenal reality, such as when the same phenomenon is dreamed.
