It is both. H20 can be seen as a solid, a gas, and a liquid. If a simple molecule can have multiple appearances and forms, reality can certainly be both concrete and abstract.
well if its the bottom half of the hour, then reality is concrete otherwise its abstract so which truth do you prefer?
Reality is objective and is therefore abstract, only after the individual has defined and respected does it becomes concrete.
"Reality" is whatever you've been programmed to believe it is. True "reality" is seldom, if ever, experienced by the human mind. Every moment is screened, evaluated, judged, and colored by our previous experiences and secretly held beliefs. I say "secretly held" because most of are unaware they even exist. Here's to self discovery, which can set you free! "Above all else, know thyself" Have a pleasant journey!
Reality is like the shadows at night during a new moon. Reality is a tasty color that is sprinkled onto a noisy sensation. Reality is the time between when we fall asleep and when we wake up -- everything else is but a dream. Reality is an abstract painting of concrete words. Reality is the difference between knowing what you see and seeing what you know. Reality is an illusion of all things that were once real. Reality is a binary condition where no=yes Reality is a stream of experiences separated by an ocean of mundaneness.
ILLUSION is being late for work and, because of it, having missed a fatal accident with a truck. REALITY is being late for work and getting fired, and then driving home and hitting the truck. ILLUSION is being late for a car payment and having the bank "just forget about it." REALITY is getting your car repossessed. ILLUSION is going to a bar and having a bunch of women try to buy you beers. REALITY is going to a bar and buying beers for every woman and still not getting laid and then finding out you are late on your car payment because your check bounced and then getting up late the next morning and speeding to get to work and getting promptly fired and then driving back home and slamming into a large fuel truck that explodes into a firey mess and kills you and then finding out that God needs a cover charge before you can go into the golden gate's nightclub.
Question: What is the color of a red rose? Answer: What a silly question, of course it's red you idiot. Truth: A red rose absorbes every color except the color red. Red is the one color that it reflects or rejects, hence that is what we see. So the intrinsic color of a red rose is actually every color except red. "Reality is what you can get away with"
True -- however the biggest question I have yet to understand about reality is why information (red light -- photons, etc) entering my machine (eye, retina, cells) invokes a "sensation" (feeling beyond a machine).