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A very small group of philosophy professors issued a response paper. They pointed out that the ancient philosopher Bericoles’ Principle of Identity says that an object is what it is regardless of whether or not it is observed. This Principle, they said, means that even if we can’t observe what these sub-atomic particles were up to, they had to be doing something definite. If these particles (indeed, anything) do in fact exist, then they must be independent of the observer and certainly couldn’t be doing something and not doing the same thing at the same time in the same context. Moreover, they retorted, Bericoles’ Principle of Cause and Effect is a logical next step from the Identity Principle. If something exists, it has a definite identity and therefore defining characteristics that give it’s existence a possible and not possible range of action. Finally, they pointed out, the physicists own paper made use of the Principle of Identity. In fact, for anyone to claim anything it was necessary to use Bericoles’ Principles. Even if the physicists wanted to claim people can know nothing, that too is an absolute statement.

This paper was in turn responded to by a much larger group of philosophy professors that point out that the Theories and Principles of the other major ancient philosopher Quakelo were in direct opposition to Bericoles’ ideas. For more than two centuries the opposing ideas of these two major philosophers set up an irresolvable conflict about our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality. But, Bericoles’ ideas could not be taken seriously now in light of the fact that Quakleo’s ideas had been once and for all proven to be true. No one ever publicly said, but I thought it was odd, that these physicist and professors were claiming that they had “proven” that The Truth was that there was No Truth to be found. Nevertheless, this effectively silenced any further opposition on the matter.

I fear most people are somehow glad that everything is crumbling to dust.