it’s confusing other people don’t have this objection
For me, the cow has left the barn on “reality” referring only to the physical world I inhabit, so it doesn’t register as inaccurate (although I would agree it’s imprecise). “Reality” without other qualifiers points me towards “not fictional”.
“emotional resonance” … “shared facts” or “shared worldview”
I notice I’m resistant to these proposals, but was pretty happy about the term “shared reality”. Here are some things I like about “shared reality” that I would be giving up if I adopted one of your suggestions:
Reality is immediate and brings my attention to what’s in front of me. For example, in “the reality of the situation is that not everyone will have a place to sit down if we have the party at my place”. Here, “reality” is serving as a term that means “the space of possibilities that are laid out in front of us” (it excludes things like outlandish situations or anything that could have been done before now).
“Shared reality” as a term sounds nice to me; it rolls off the tongue. As a result, it’s the sort of thing that I would use in casual conversation.
Shared reality spans both emotional content and statements about the physical world.
I can’t think of a term that hits these points well that isn’t reality, but perhaps you can think of something I missed. Of your proposed terms:
Emotional resonance hits (II) but fails (I) and (III).
Shared facts hits (I) but misses (II) and (III) for me.
Shared worldview hits (II) and (III), but is so far from (I) that I imagine I’d have a similar hangup as you do with ‘shared reality’ if I heard someone use that term to describe the experience of oneness when singing along at a concert.
For me, the cow has left the barn on “reality” referring only to the physical world I inhabit, so it doesn’t register as inaccurate (although I would agree it’s imprecise). “Reality” without other qualifiers points me towards “not fictional”.
I notice I’m resistant to these proposals, but was pretty happy about the term “shared reality”. Here are some things I like about “shared reality” that I would be giving up if I adopted one of your suggestions:
Reality is immediate and brings my attention to what’s in front of me. For example, in “the reality of the situation is that not everyone will have a place to sit down if we have the party at my place”. Here, “reality” is serving as a term that means “the space of possibilities that are laid out in front of us” (it excludes things like outlandish situations or anything that could have been done before now).
“Shared reality” as a term sounds nice to me; it rolls off the tongue. As a result, it’s the sort of thing that I would use in casual conversation.
Shared reality spans both emotional content and statements about the physical world.
I can’t think of a term that hits these points well that isn’t reality, but perhaps you can think of something I missed. Of your proposed terms:
Emotional resonance hits (II) but fails (I) and (III).
Shared facts hits (I) but misses (II) and (III) for me.
Shared worldview hits (II) and (III), but is so far from (I) that I imagine I’d have a similar hangup as you do with ‘shared reality’ if I heard someone use that term to describe the experience of oneness when singing along at a concert.