In the broadest sense, being is the most general category that applies to everything and contrasts only with nothingness. The term reality overlaps with various related concepts, such as being, existence, world, actuality, and truth. This view contrasts being real with being fake, like the distinction between a real duck and a fake one used as a decoy.
Monism and pluralism are families of views about the roles of unity and multiplicity in the structure of reality. According to this ...
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