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Looks like I was editing my above post at the same time you were writing the last one. Okay, here goes:

Objective Reality, to me, is not exactly what you call Subjective Reality. Objective Reality does "actually exist" outside of the mind of a person. It exists as part of our experience of the world, but it is not absolute or consistent, it changes. We know that Objective Reality exists outside of the person and in the world because Subjective Reality does not always agree with Objective Reality, the subject must reject the Subjective Reality and substitute it with the external laws and rules known as Objective Reality. When the subject is unable to do so, the results can be disastrous (insanity).

Absolute reality, however, is the concept of a reality that governs all other forms of reality. It is that which causes in the subject a perception of reality that does not conform with objective reality. It influences subjective and objective reality in a consistent manner and with absolute control, by it is not capable of being perceived directly by the subject, and causes the changes in what objective reality consists of during a certain point of time. That is, if it exists, and if it doesn't, then the above still works.

So, there is definitely an objective and subjective reality, while the presense of a true reality is questionable.

More edits: The manner through which we suspect the existence of something that does not exist within the phenomenal realm is often referred to as sublime, or rapture. These concepts are pretty well known, but one thing that these experiences impart is the illusion of having gained some new knowledge, when that knowledge is not there to be gained. It leads us to suspect the existence of something we cannot detect, what I will call absolute reality.

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