Blog 4: The Matrix, 55-65

A Metaphysics investigates principles of reality which give us the answer of what is reality and what is imaginary. I would say that a Metaphysics that we often use alot to determine what real to the fake is our 5 senses. These sences help us determine what is real by smell, hearing, sighting, touching and tasting. But one though that I have is, even in a dream we could have all these senses, so if we were to get trapped in our dream how would we tell whats reality and whats not not? But other then that i would say that we could easily tell what real from fake because its basically natural instinct with our minds. So using these senses we will always know what real from fake unless we start loosing our senses little by little and blinded.

While going over of the reading and reviewing the terms "source" and "ontological status" i would say that they are basically separating the imaginary and what doesnt exist and putting them into categories. I have this idea becuase i searched the words on google and also wikipedia and got a definition which gave me an idea of what these terms mean and what they are trying to define as the real world and the imaginary world. When i looked up "ontological" i got this weird defintion " Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences", By this definition i got the idea that what they mean by this term in the book is they basically ditermining the real world from the dream world by using differences and similarities in each world and determining whats real or fake, And by doing all this they got many resources and facts which prove what they had to say was correct. I would have to agree because they obvioulsy know what they are talking about because they have proven facts and it is also true what they had to say.