Tuesday Evening, An Elementary Dialogue

[magic]

sorry but I agree with Michael's comment about the meat. to me the essential features of a good TOE are simplicity, brevity and explanatory power. Oh, and the capability of being understood by the average 5 year old child.

[mkirkpatrick]

Michael,

If the only real truth is subjective truth, then Einstein's equations can claim no greater validity than the ravings of a madman.

Not even the most dyed-in-the-wool idealist would accept such a view. Even they would admit that there are fundamental aspects of thought, qua human and not qua individual, which are a priori. This means that there are judgments which circumscribe the allowable limits of all understanding. These include spatial, tempora and causal concepts. To put it another way, judgments of this sort are necessary preconditions to all human knowledge.The notion that purely subjective truth can be equated with "real truth" is simply not supportable logically.

Neri,That might just be the case!"real truth" can "only" come from within,where else in Gods name could it possibly come from?There is no "outside"ALL lies Within-period.

I am not an idealist rather a realist who sees it as it is,rather than how I would intellectually prefer it to be,"IT" being reality of course!And of course you are overlooking
the very obvious fact of the illogical,which so happens to make up 50% of objective reality-the YING=logical-Yang=illogical!

regards michael.