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Re: Can There be a Theory of Everything? - 09-01-2007, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick View Post
Thanks Rascal,another problem I see is in the nature of the question itself,the question
assumes (quite wrongly I feel) that there are many things,and then follows up with the
idea of forming theories about all these "things" that are (wrongly included in "every")

Surely it follows that if we ask the wrong question,we will always receive the wrong
answer!

regards michael.
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The following quote seems to correlate your premise, Michael.

"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus

Does that sound right to you?

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(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words.

"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus
"Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein
"Particles give me a headache." - Ibid
  
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