degree-of-reality-is-degree-of-holding

# Degree of reality is degree of holding A thing is real in the measure that it holds. Not in the force it exerts but in what depends on it, what it carries, what would fall if it gave way. A pebble pushes and is pushed and holds nothing; a covenant holds a life. So reality is not flat, a bare yes or no of existence, but a depth, and the deepest real is what bears the most. You can lean your weight on the real, and you fall through the rest. Related: [[the-summit-of-the-real-depends-on-nothing]], [[the-ground-of-being-is-someone-not-something]], [[relationships-stack-and-cohere]] Rests on: [[the-ground-of-being-is-someone-not-something]]