Fundamental Category Error in Analysis of Meta-Physics
At its core, science works like this: We begin with hypotheses — tentative explanations. Through repeated rigorous testing, some hypotheses become highly confirmed theories. Over time, certain exceptionally robust ideas can effectively graduate into axioms — foundational assumptions that are treated as background knowledge and no longer questioned in normal scientific practice. Thus, working assumptions and gradually achieved such high confidence that they now function as axioms for entire fields. However, even these “axioms” are not unconditionally proven. They remain open, in principle, to revision if extraordinary evidence demands it. From these axioms and theories, we make testable predictions. Experiments constantly challenge them. Successful predictions raise our confidence; contradictions force refinement. Scientific theories are therefore never proven unconditionally true — they are the best current models supported by evidence.In mathematics, a theorem is “proven” only relativ...
