Talk:Virtual
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I'm gonna try to make this more like a disambiguation page, since that's exactly what it's doing. --Snarius 05:25, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=virtual&namespace=0 --Snarius 05:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is this wank?
I am not a philospher, but I smell wank in this paragraph from the article.
- Recently this conception of the virtual has been challenged and another core meaning has been elicited (Denis Berthier, "Meditations on the real and the virtual" - in French). It is based both upon science (virtual image), technology (virtual world), and etymology (derivation from virtue - Latin virtus). At the same ontological level as "possible," "real," or "potential," "virtual" is defined as that which is not real but displays the full qualities of the real - in a plainly actual - i.e. not potential - way. The prototypical case is a reflection in a mirror: it is already there, whether I am here to see it; it is not waiting for any kind of actualization. This definition allows one to understand that real effects can be issued from a virtual object, so that our perception of it and our whole relation to it are fully real. It explains that virtual reality can be used to cure phobies - which remains contradictory in any conception for which the virtual is a kind of potential.
If you agree, please delete it. ike9898 04:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
