The main article for thiscategory isConsensus reality.

Thiscategory is for a set ofphilosophical theories which argue thatreality, or at least our understanding of it, is determined or influenced byconsensus. These theories are related tosociological theories ofconformity andpublic opinion, but tend to be more concerned withepistomological andmetaphysical questions. Many theories ofconsensus reality arepostmodernist in character, but the terms are not directly interchangeable.