@Chumly,
No, I don't think that. I think that all of us have vested interests in maintaining certain "self-concepts" (otherwise what have we been doing all these years ).In your case that might involve what you have invested in the idea of teaching "scientific facts". Then along comes a "trouble-maker" like me who is keen to point out, say, that the word "fact" actually implies "construction" (from
facere Latin -to make)...and why would I do that ?...to try to justify
my attempts to make sense of the problems encountered at the frontiers of physics and elsewhere. I do not offer a"belief system" or a "solution", there may be none. I merely seek companionship in the search for a "vantage point" and I believe I have encountered what may be some promising routes. But travelling companions might need to leave some of their mental home comforts behind.
As an aside, I remember. many years ago, having to teach "non-prescriptive grammar" (Chomsky) to a new class of mature MA students, most of whom had been teachers of "traditional grammar". I can remember the look on some of their faces when I pointed out that "We
was going" is "grammatical" according to Chomsky if it used consistently within an idiolect. All those years of beating "correct English" into the kids ! A couple didn't stay the course after that !
