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" When truth and reality were made to take lie-detector tests, they themselves confessed to not believing in truth and reality.
We are all agnostics.
There were those who believed in God and those who did not.
There are those who believe in reality and those who do not.
And then there are the reality agnostics who, though not rejecting it in an absolute sense, reject belief in it: 'Reality (like God in the past) may perhaps exist, but I don't believe in it.'
There is nothing contradictory or absurd in this.
It is the enlightened refusal to let oneself be caught in the trap of a reality that is fetishized in its principle, a reality that is itself caught in the trap of the signs of reality.
Is there such a thing as a naked, original reality, anterior to the signs in which it is made manifest?
Who knows? The self-evidence of reality has a shadow of retrospective doubt hovering over it.
However this may be, the agnostic is not concerned with this hinterworld or this original reality; he confines himself to reality as an unverifiable hypothesis, to signs as signs, behind which might also be hidden the absence of reality. (Their profusion in fact ends up voiding them of their credibility.) "

Jean Baudrillard , The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact


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Jean Baudrillard quote : When truth and reality were made to take lie-detector tests, they themselves confessed to not believing in truth and reality.<br />We are all agnostics.<br />There were those who believed in God and those who did not.<br />There are those who believe in reality and those who do not.<br />And then there are the reality agnostics who, though not rejecting it in an absolute sense, reject belief in it: 'Reality (like God in the past) may perhaps exist, but I don't believe in it.'<br />There is nothing contradictory or absurd in this.<br />It is the enlightened refusal to let oneself be caught in the trap of a reality that is fetishized in its principle, a reality that is itself caught in the trap of the signs of reality.<br />Is there such a thing as a naked, original reality, anterior to the signs in which it is made manifest?<br />Who knows? The self-evidence of reality has a shadow of retrospective doubt hovering over it.<br />However this may be, the agnostic is not concerned with this hinterworld or this original reality; he confines himself to reality as an unverifiable hypothesis, to signs as signs, behind which might also be hidden the absence of reality. (Their profusion in fact ends up voiding them of their credibility.)