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A General Image Theory of science theories.

1. The basics of logical thought and of thinking.

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This General Image Theory of science theories, dates from 1964/1965 following a study of the history of physics and of philosophy. Some conclusions from those studies are presented on this site.

In the spirit of William Gilbert this is not addressed to that crass multitude of career-scientists content to kick around the narrow range of ideas that today's science journals consider fashionable, but to that free spirit happy to labour hard and dig deep to find real truth.

Any science theory is basically an attempted description of a universe or, more often, of some part or aspect of a universe, and a valid science theory includes no logical inconsistencies and is consistent with observation and experiment. As a description, a science theory will use language and may also include mathematical description and involves logical reasoning.

The most rigorous logical reasoning, as with Euclid, has often been in the field of mathematics - and the basis of mathematics is the equation. While the most basic equation is an identity equation, such as 2=2, mathematical equations are more commonly 'image' equations such as 2=1+1 where the two sides of an equation declare two things to be images of eachother. For some the truth described in mathematics by 2=1+1 may seem better described by 1+1=2, but certainly the reverse of any valid mathematical equation is also a valid mathematical equation. Hence, in mathematics there can always be at least two different valid descriptions of one thing having precisely the same real meaning. But different people can think differently and so some may not see a reversed equation as meaning exactly the same. And much in the universe is actually relative to the observer, really allowing different observers to reach different valid conclusions.

In physics theory Einstein's celebrated equation E=mc2 if valid is as valid reversed, or as eg m=E/c2. And while mathematics clearly is basically 'image manipulation', so also is language. While language is really much more complex than mathematics, it always includes "one and one is two" and "John is a big boy" basically being "John=big boy John" image equating. Even "You go !" can be interpreted as "you=future you not here" image handling. Words do not have intrinsic meanings, but only meanings that some using community assigns them or meanings that somebody wants them to have. Hence in today's common English the two phrases "That is cool" and "That is hot" are commonly taken as having basically the same meaning, but in a science setting are generally taken as having basically opposite meanings. But certainly in language as in mathematics there can always be more than one valid description of one thing.

The key imaging for natural language is that of a word being an image of an actual or conceivable thing, eg "bed" = bed word or "Adam" = Adam word. It is only from this base that natural language can give its universe descriptions as eg "the bed is big" being 'bed = big bed'. That the two sides of common language or mathematical equations necessarily involve an assumed identity, involves an assumed logical consistency though not an assumed actual truth.

Indeed that this image manipulaion aspect of both mathematics and language must reflect the basic nature of human thought is indicated by some language disorders. People with some language disorders will commonly say "big" when they mean to say "small" - and normal people will even make that kind of slip sometimes indicating that the mind deals with balanced images as "small thing=not big thing". One of the most basic psychological tests is the Word Association test, where people most commonly opposite word pairs - eg "Light" with "Dark" and "Big" with "Small" or often effectively "Light" with "not Light" and "Big" with "not Big". And it may be more than coincidence that Gilbert's 'active matter' physics was followed by Descartes' 'not active matter' physics and that Newton concluded that either might fit with his mathematical laws and with the facts known at the time.

The history of science theory clearly shows that different people can think differently about the same thing. Hence conceptual relativity can allow description relativity and that should allow valid theory relativity.

But that one thing can clearly have more than one description, conflicts directly with what seems an equally clearly valid claim of science about science theory descriptions - that for any area of science there can be only one valid theory and it will disprove all other theories. One thing can be described in more than one way, yet to date science has allowed only one valid theory description. That most basic logical conflict is addressed by this General Image Theory of science theories.

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