In Sideslip by Ted White and Dave van Arnam, a private detective from our New York finds himself in an alternate reality where Earth is under occupation by interstellar humanoids nicknamed " Angels ", who had landed in 1938, taking advantage of the confusion following Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio program, and had ruled Earth as a colony ever since.

This experience landed him a spot on reality show FC Z which takes 15 men between the ages of 18 and 31 who have never played football before and trains them so they can play against a real team.

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

As well as differing about the reality of time as a whole, metaphysical theories of time can differ in their ascriptions of reality to the past, present and future separately.

Thus there were in reality thirteen tribes ; but the number twelve was preserved by excluding that of Levi when Ephraim and Manasseh are mentioned separately.

During filming he arranged to live separately from his wife in order to achieve the " isolation " needed to focus on his own character's reality.

What the king required was to have the consent, the resolution of the three estates of the realm ; it was in reality of little importance to him whether their resolutions expressed themselves in common or separately.

" Others, however, point to Reggie's violent prison record when he was being detained separately from Ronnie and argue that in reality, the twins ' temperaments were little different.

8 .↑ In 2006 Pierre Bonnaud, history and geography professor at the university of Clermont-Ferrand, inside an article titled " Esquisse géohistorique du Poitou médioroman ", in the chapter titled « La langue régionale » ( in singular, and moreover called « poitevin-saintongeais » by him ), explain to us the double reality ( unity / diversity ): « It is impossible to analyze separately poitevin and saintongese, but they are at the same time interdependent and a bit distinct, as much in their origins as in their evolution.

Recent terms ' speakers of note have included Piers Paul Read on the reality of Hell ; Fr Timothy Finigan on ' Humanae Vitae '; Fr Thomas Weinandy on the Incarnation ; Fr John Saward on the character of Heaven, and, separately, on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum ; Fr Aidan Nichols on the centenary of Pope St Pius X's condemnation of Modernism ; Professor Geza Vermes ( in debate with Dom Henry Wansbrough ) on the historicity of the Gospels ; Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP on being a Catholic politician ; Sir Anthony Kenny on the Oxford Movement ; and Baroness Williams of Crosby on the relationship between God and Caesar.

He is the conveyor of a sacred reality by which he has been grasped.

The reality of the situation, however, is described by Mr. Lyford: ``

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.

A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.

This machinery will not become the instrument of an Atlantic community by fiat, but only when that community evolves from potentiality to reality.

This error was compounded by declaring the recession to be `` a statistical one '', and not a reality.

It is not positivism which has isolated metaphysics from reality by distinguishing between description and prescription.

But, in denying any physical reality for this dream, how could the brain possibly compose that realistic, vividly visual continuity uninterrupted by misty fadeout, violent break or sudden substitution??

The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit world of the entities which previously populated it.

In classical Greece the emphasis is not given to the illusive imaginative reality represented by the ideal forms, but to the analogies and the interaction of the members in the whole, a method created by Polykleitos.

The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as they sought some reality behind appearances.

In its pathological form, spiritual anxiety may tend to " drive the person toward the creation of certitude in systems of meaning which are supported by tradition and authority " even though such " undoubted certitude is not built on the rock of reality ".

The plague that carries people off unexpectedly echoes the reality of the occupation, in which people could be snatched from their homes by the Gestapo and imprisoned or sent to work as slave labor in German-controlled territories or simply killed.

Put another way, Ford innovated its way to a lower price point and by doing so turned a huge potential market into a reality.

The development of toolpath control via jigs, fixtures, for machine tools ( such as the screw-cutting lathe, metal planer and milling machine ) during the early 19th century provided the prerequisites for the modern assembly line by making interchangeable parts a practical reality.

Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

Whorf argued that paying attention to how other physical phenomena are described in the study of linguistics could make valuable contributions to science by pointing out the ways in which certain assumptions about reality are implicit in the structure of language itself, and how language guides the attention of speakers towards certain phenomena in the world which risk becoming overemphasized while leaving other phenomena at risk of being overlooked.

Big Brother is a reality television franchise created by John de Mol.

When the idea and reality of the National Debt came about during the 18th century this was also managed by the bank.

The services were at the same time simplified and shortened, and the use of the whole Psalter every week ( which had become a mere theory in the Roman Breviary, owing to its frequent supersession by saints ' day services ) was made a reality.

In the chapter on climate change in his 2001 book A Skeptical Environmentalist he states ; " This chapter accepts the reality of man-made global warming but questions the way in which future scenarios have been arrived at and finds that forecasts of climate change of 6 degrees by the end of the century are not plausible.

For example, the parachute became more useful once powered flight was a reality.

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

Some critics of this approach feel that while these models approach biological reality as a representation of how the system works, they lack explanatory powers because complicated systems of connections with even simple rules are extremely complex and often less interpretable than the system they model.

Note that this brain-in-a-vat argument conflates cyberspace with reality, while the more common descriptions of cyberspace contrast it with the " real world ".

Stevenson has identified persuasive definition as a form of stipulative definition which purports to describe the " true " or " commonly accepted " meaning of a term, while in reality stipulating an altered use, perhaps as an argument for some specific view.

Yet, since a system can be coherent while also being wrong, coherentists face the difficulty of ensuring that the whole system corresponds to reality.

Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the Church of the East teach that the reality ( the " substance ") of the elements of bread and wine is wholly changed into the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ, while the appearances ( the " species ") remain.

For instance, some argue that modern representative democracy is a realization of political egalitarianism, while in reality, most political power still resides in the hands of a ruling class, rather than in the hands of the people.

He considered ' These phantasies include a great deal of the true constitutional essence of the subject's personality ' and that the energetic man ' is one who succeeds by his efforts in turning his wishful phantasies into reality ', while the artist ' can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of into symptoms ... the doom of neurosis '.

For a useful interpretation of human reality, to share faith experience he said that we must each make certain " over-beliefs " in things which, while they cannot be proven on the basis of experience, help us to live fuller and better lives.

As Walter Ulbricht noted, everything was made to look democratic while in reality Communists retained control in the background.

Europe ), so naturally it feels familiar, even if a little glorified by enchantment of distance in time., Letters pg, 239 ",</ ref > This was not always clear, however, as a few of his early letters described that while his stories take place on earth, elements of the stories as a kind of "... secondary or sub-creational reality " or " Secondary belief " in replies to letters, or " at a different stage of imagination ...".

One part responds to the hypnotist while the other retains awareness of reality.

# Further, in their view idols depicted persons without substance or reality while icons depicted real persons.

Thus, it has generally been used to describe something which, while unreal, is so in a very specific or unusual fashion, usually one emphasizing not just the " not real ," but some form of estrangement from our generally accepted sense of reality.

Platonic idealism affirms that abstractions are more basic to reality than the things we perceive, while subjective idealists and phenomenalists tend to privilege sensory experience over abstract reasoning.

But Steinschneider will not admit the possibility of this conjecture, while Renan scarcely strengthens it by regarding " Andreas " as a possible northern corruption of " En Duran ," which, he says, may have been the Provençal surname of Anatoli, since Anatoli, in reality, was but the name of his great-grandfather.

Nehru, while a pacifist, was not blind to the political and geo-strategic reality of India in 1947.

According to the constitution, executive power is exercised by the government while legislative power is vested in the ministerial cabinet, the Senate and the National Assembly, although in reality these two latter bodies have very little power or legislative role.

The students claimed that it was a way to " shut off " their own lives for a while and become part of another reality.

This created a perception of MIDI as low-quality audio, while in reality MIDI itself contains no sound, and the quality of its playback depends entirely on the quality of the sound-producing device.

A second strand of Kaplanian theology exists, which makes clear that God has ontological reality, a real and absolute existence independent of human beliefs, while rejecting classical theism and any belief in miracles.

It is set in an Earthlike world ( perhaps in an alternate reality ), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.

Idealism holds that reality is limited to mental qualities while skepticism challenges our ability to know anything outside our minds.