This is http://www.essayz.com/a9002272.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %KINDS MISLEADING ASSUMPTIONS EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS 900227 Often people are mislead by exclusive assumptions in terms of which they seek to understand all of reality. The basic misleading assumption is that all of reality can be understood in terms of just one fundamental reality which is the essence of all realities. That assumption is exclusive in that it assumes that there cannot exist two or more complementary kinds of reality which are each essentially beyond analysis. Many scientists seek to understand all realities in terms of elementary objects, and they believe that the smaller the objects are, the more fundamental they must be: mixtures; compounds; molecules; atoms; electrons and nuclei; electrons, protons, neutrons and mesons; quarks; micro-strings; etc. They attempt to reduce all relationships to geometric, logical and quantitative relationships among point-like particles and strings. How are scientists to explain their own reflexive personal relationships in terms of micro-strings? Can objective relationships be understood in terms of only reflexive relationships? Can reflexive relationships be understood in terms of only objective relationships? It might be more fruitful and integrative to admit that both reflexive and objective relationships are fundamentally irreducible aspects of reality; and to give up trying to reduce all of reality to just one kind of essential reality. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================