[thinktwice]

About "sameness" in reality with regard to "historicism" you wrote ... But that rock-bottom sameness is not a historical pattern. Nor is it logical, or mathematical (as Descartes thought) or economic (Marx). It runs deeper.

Reality changes over time -- there is no "rock-bottom" sameness to reality other than its definition -- Reality is that which exists.

[cornelis]

And so they thought long ago, and called it being, or Being. But obviously the dispute is not in saying reality is, but rather to know what it is. Rhetorical sadness and rhetorical knowing is not the problem. It is understanding what it is. Meaning is the problem, not being.