Jason Joel Thompson
> I know you want to brush this one under the carpet, but I hope you'll agree
> that the most obvious and most common assumptions are the ones most
> resistant to change. In the interests of constant improvement, even the
> most fundamental pillars of belief, too, must be challenged.
>
I think I know how you feel, Jason.
At five years old, I wanted to know *why* 2 + 2 = 4.
Bertrand Russell wrote a huge book about it (_Principia Mathematica).
Rather than write a book to prove that the set of all that exists equals one
set, I'll simply present it as axiomatic (like, 2 + 2 = 4).
There is only one reality because reality means the (unitary) set of all that
exists.
(You won't be tested on this,
but you'll need to know it to accurately solve more complex problems.)
--J. R.
"We participate, therefore we are."
--John Seely Brown, _The Social Life of Information_
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