Let me try to put it this way. Ichneumon. In order for learning to take place, so that knowledge may increase, one must be willing to move beyond the comfy categories of what we know now, or think we know, and confront the yet-unknown. People who aren't willing to do that seem to turn out to be the victims of doctrine, or ideology.
Or to put it another way, to quote General George S. Patton: "If everyone is thinking alike then no one's thinking."
Now Patton was no "scientist." But he did have a keen nose for truth.
In short, IMHO the truth of reality is an open-ended question, or quest -- not a destination "shortly" to be arrived at. Or so it seems to me. FWIW.
I agree with that, but that's *hardly* the same as what bvw was saying. Thus my surprise when you said that you "cannot say the observation is unjust" in response to his overly broad, spiteful, insulting, obnoxious, dismissive, holier-than-thou comment.
Perhaps you cannot say that it was unjust, but I have no problem at all recognizing it as such.
Would you please take another look at his comment and reconsider whether it may be "just"? I'd like to think that your first assessment was not something you'd like to stand by. If it is, then I'm going to have to reconsider my own high opinion of what I have to date taken for your fairness and civility.