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Re: What can we know of reality?

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I was able to follow it, yeah.
Well, that shows feint interest if I have ever seen it. Put that together with the addition to your signiture:

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I can only presume that your interest is somewhat lacking. As Idsoftwaresteve has not responded for almost a month, I am beginning to get the idea that I have exceeded everyone's attention span again.
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If you have arguments with what I have said, I am ready and willing to defend them further. If you feel my deductions so far are rational and acceptable, I will proceed further.
If Idsoftwaresteve responds or someone else expresses an interest, I will continue. If not, I will let the discourse die.
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Yes I understand what you are trying to do.
Now why is it that I tend to doubt that?
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Just doubt the validity of why you are trying to do it.
This line makes no sense to me at all. You "doubt the validity of why” I am trying to do something? I presume English is not your first language.
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Mathematics cannot explain the universe alone.
Now that, of course, is a very common belief; but I am afraid I have never seen any proof of such a statement! Do you happen to have a proof? If you do, I would love to see it.
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... means nothing unless you know what h and V represent and you have to use language to do that.
In that case, it is incumbent upon you to explain to me exactly how you come to know the meanings of those words you intend to use to “explain” what “h and V” represent.

In actual fact, I am of the opinion that the true power of language is that it makes it very easy to hide the fact that you do not know the truth of your beliefs. Instead, it makes it quite easy to hide the problem of understanding that process by burying it in a problem so difficult that everyone backs off from trying to solve it and, instead, takes the trivial out of presuming their understanding is a mere self evident truth not worth examining. Mathematics, on the other hand, puts the hard problem directly in front of you. My point is that millions upon millions of children solve that “hard problem” every year.

I am not claiming that the solution is correct (as does almost everyone else) but I am claiming it is a solvable problem and that I have discovered a solution. My difficulty is quite simple: no one seems at all interested in looking at my solution. The reaction is universal and simple: everyone takes it as given that “there can exist no solution to that problem”. So be it!

It's been fun -- Dick

PS – I saw a “T” shirt today with an excellent quote on it.

Be what you are; say what you think and feel
Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind!
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