As a result, political discourse, even in democratic societies, does not necessarily lead to a better understanding of reality.

It will be difficult to adjust to reality.

It doesn't feel real.

They reflect different aspects of reality.

Unfortunately, this is far from true.

I wanted my artistic statement, my interpretation of reality.

The actual nature of reality was not at issue.

John R. Searle does not elucidate the terms strong and weak in his book The Construction of Social Reality , but he clearly uses them in his Chinese room argument, where he debates the feasibility of creating a computing machine with a sharable understanding of reality, and he adds We are precisely such machines.

So this model is an intelligent representation of reality.

We must abandon Popper s tacit assumption that political discourse aims at a better understanding of reality and reintroduce it as an explicit requirement.

That could happen. It's humor within the realm of reality.

With a renewed sense of optimism also comes the hard reckoning of reality.

I felt that I had to kind of bring back the discourse to reality.

In the contest between fact and fantasy, fact suddenly had a powerful ally.

It must renew the Special Committee's mandate in keeping with current realities and with the aspirations of the Palestinian people.

It is a pathetic little second rate substitute for reality a pitiable flight from life.

The thinking behind such acts bears the most distinctive mark of delusion the loss of the understanding of the symbolic nature of human reality, confusing symbols and their referents, and seeing people in terms of what they represent.

Ever since, official numbers and reality have parted ways.

Any delay here will be at variance with the political and economic realities of the world.

Each day I learn new ways of bring about nature's facts in case nature herself should fail us.

This can be made possible only by making the Council more representative of the new geopolitical realities.

Such important measures are needed to meet more effectively the changed reality and new challenges.

There is also a need to make global economic governance more open, transparent and representative of the emerging realities.

This use of virtual reality is not just good for making people look older.

So they're deprived of understanding their reality.

Whether it's a misunderstanding or an understanding.

Message understood. Message understood.

It is not our will that is being tested, but our understanding of reality.

But Obama s victory might also be a testament to most US voters basic sense of economic reality.

Merkel s kill to cure remedy has run up against reality and democracy.

The authors have no wish to be incorporated in such a religious Christian conception of reality.

The summit has also provided us with a unique opportunity to explore new ways to adapt the United Nations to new realities.

But, as I said at the outset, there are also some facets of reality that encourage us.

And I'm going to actually write it this way, because I think it's interesting.

Understood.

Understand?

Understood? Oh!

It's a weird thing for us humans to wrap our minds around, since we only ever get to experience one possibility.

He suggested that the revitalization of existing R amp D institutions and mechanisms take into consideration the new components of the current global economic reality.

In Haiti, about 200,000 people died actually, a bit more by the latest estimate.

Sami understood.

A Crisis of Understanding

He got it.

They're dead!

23. The best way to update instruments and mechanisms in response to the changing international reality is to modernize their charters by known and accepted procedures.