The World is an abstraction !
It sounds like a simple enough question and for the most part people would say no…. there is indeed more to the world then just abstract objects.
This attitude can however be misleading…. The world can never be as certain or as palatable as we may wish it to be. The simple fact is that humans, like all organisms (artificial or biological) are limited by:
a) The experiences that they have. b) The maximum and minimum limits of there sensory systems. c) The amount of data that they can comprehend. d) The finite amount of time available to sample data.
Take the instance of, I have 2 items of type X in my hand. Again it sounds quite definite in its statement, ie: I have two X’s or X X. Now that is where the problem occurs for instance:
2*X simply is another representation of XWe can however group the two objects together and say that we have a group containing the objects X, X.
This stance is explainable and very difficult to prove wrong using just mathematical logic for we are after all proving that maths is consistent in a situation with mathematics…. So what makes the mathematics form which we derive our proof consistent in the first place…….. if we were to reason this argument to the end we may in fact see that maths falls back upon a set of basic fundamental rules of logic in order to prove its own consistency…. Again it is using these rules of logic we tried to prove its inconsistency !
Ahhhh the dog chases its own tail and nothing can seem to be true… but just abstract.
I argue that for all of those people looking for a theory of everything they must realise that they are in fact looking for the “Best Theory of Abstraction….” a BTA.
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