an aggregate of laws

Posted at 5:45, 12.12.2008

Theories of reality can be easily created but if well done can hardly be disproved.  Aren't things like materialism theories of reality? Is a worldview a reality theory? Like for Christians how the eternal existence of God is just a brute fact - he had no beginning or cause. How about arithmetics ? Everything being represented by an aggregate of laws that can't be disproved, but can't be rationalized either. Two versions need not mutually exclude each other. The problem with such a theory is that it is self-referential and creates its own means to an end. Does not mean it would be wrong, as Gödel would rush to claim, but let's leave good old Kurt to rest since he's being far over-stretched over the intellectual landscape already. The proposed tautology-preserving principles of reality theory should put mind back into the mix in an explicit, theoretically tractable way, effectively endowing logic with 'self-processing capability'. This, after all, is exactly what it possesses in its natural manifestation, reality at large, and is an essential dimension of the closure property without which truth is insupportable. That is, reality must be able to recognize itself and impart this ability to its components as a condition of their existence and interaction. Now reality does not give stones the ability to recognize themselves or reality and that is not a necessary part or function of reality. A reality theory must be rational and tautological, while those by which it is subsequently refined may be empirical. A reality theory must also posess the three Cs: Comprehensiveness, closure, and consistency. Such a theory will preserve the tautological property of logic while rationally precluding uncertainty. A theory constructed like this is called a supertautology.

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