# Wgen did you discover that "reality" is inconsistent?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 2, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wgen-did-you-discover-that-reality-is-inconsistent/501738 "2009-07-02T20:47:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![ashman165](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ashman165](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashman165)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wgen-did-you-discover-that-reality-is-inconsistent/501738/141 "2009-07-06T23:45:41Z")

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> [@Indistinguishable](#):
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> Sure, I’m not fighting with you; just talking. I agree with you that it’s impossible to know what **SiXSwordS** meant by bringing up calculus in the first place. But I think they agree now too.

One can only hope. I didn’t mean to imply that we’re fighting. I just wanted to make it clear that I have a full understanding of two mathematical concepts in question. I just chose to focus on some parts for the sake of convenience, not that i don’t know.

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**Author:** ![janesphasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@janesphasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janesphasm)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wgen-did-you-discover-that-reality-is-inconsistent/501738/142 "2009-07-07T17:53:49Z")

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This topic is starting to remind me of the movie Pi

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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wgen-did-you-discover-that-reality-is-inconsistent/501738/143 "2009-07-07T18:00:14Z")

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I don’t recall it, but my Dad is fond of recounting the moment when he knew I was “different.”

In arguments, he was given to try and shut people down by saying “Yes, but REALITY is . . .” and then stating his take on things. I was four years old, looked up at him and retorted, “Reality, Dad, is the playdough of perception.”

One of many moments in which he gazed down in horror at his obviously possessed child.

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