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The problem with the subjective vs objective reality argument is that it encompasses so many different areas of philosophy. One book on philosophy which I am reading at the moment (about the only one I've ever read) I would recommend to anyone new to western philosophy. It has a brief overview of 25 famous philosophical topics presented in the most reader friendly way imaginable, with further reading reccomended at the end of each chapter.
I would suggest the following chapters:
From those I have already read:
3) Brain-Snatched
5) Into the lair of the relativist
8) The strange case of the rational dentist
14) Why expect the sun to rise tomorrow
just by the titles:
18) The strange realm of numbers
19) What is knowledge
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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