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Common Language

If there was one common language for all, what would be the Advantages? Ease of communication/ solidarity among people of different corners of the world/can resolve conflicts due to the different meaning and significance of words Disadvantages? The diversity among people would lessen/the personal identity is lost of a person/culture from language would stem from one root Implications? The result could positively affect some aspects of human life, while bringing trouble and loss of individuality to others.

Theories of Reality

Common-Sense Realism This, also known as common-sense idea, suggests that the world is the mirrors the way the world is People who believe this believe what they see is what is there. Scientific Realism  According to scientific realism, the world exists as an independent reality. The scientific perception of reality is quite different to the common-sense reality, in a sense that the "familiar, comfortable, sensuous" impression of the world is replaced by colourless, odourless, soundless realm of atoms" in an empty space. For example, the physicists, Sir Arthur Eddington differentiates between two perceptions of a table: one has colour and is used for writing on and the other that contains matter, electrons, eclectic charges and vibrates in it's place. Phenomenalism Empiricism is  the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses. Phenomenalism  is a radical form of empiricism...