[url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/221861287?page=0&sort=0&showBanned=0&path=1]I was recently called out for replying to a certain thread and saying: "The earth is round". [/url] This thread asked users to post "stupid facts". To me, the idea of the earth being round (an untrue fact believed by many to be true) seemed like an obvious choice. However, users bombarded my response claiming that I finally admitted to round earth belief. I DID NOT! Fortunately, this exchange revealed an interesting theoretical question, one that deserves further consideration. Namely, [b]what is a fact?[/b] This question can be answered by one of the central ideas of Flat Earth Theory: [b][i]The Principle of The Non-Constancy of Facts.[/i][/b] The Principle holds that: [b]All facts denote the working definitions whereby finite human agents attempt to [/b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning]abduce[/url] [b]causal factors by defining observed effects as universal constants. However, abductive definitions fail as criteria of justification in proving causal factors: human agents, being finite, lack mental scope requisite to grasping the full range of variables implicit to universal constants.[/b] In other words: human minds generate facts. But human minds are limited. The facts that human minds form are by extension limited as well. Some claim that facts cannot be both true and false. They can. When someone attempts to frame a definition of the material universe (thats what a fact is), they are defining a small part of that material whole. Each generation that creates what is believed to be the all inclusive "fact" of their age, inevitably discover the larger material factors that either supersede or invalidate what was formerly believed as absolute. Consider the "fact" of [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation]Spontaneous Generation[/url]. Centuries ago, people believed that organisms such as flies simply sprang up into existence where ever trash was highly concentrated. That flies have sex was a variable their worldview failed to consider, one which invalidated the "fact" of Spontaneous Generation. But was it "true" while it was believed? If so, facts can be both true and false in different places and at different points in time. This shows that [b]FACTS ARE NOT ABSOLUTE.[/b] The "facts" of our age, like gravity or the belief that the earth is round are not "true" because everyone believes them. Conceptually and physically they are just as flawed as the notion that flies come from nowhere... This explains why Flat Earth Theory does not utilize "facts" in defense of its worldview. It use observations and rational consideration of what is observed to frame the best possible explanation derived from the sensory data it is given. Unlike science, it does not establish absolutes based on a limited view of the material universe. It lets the material universe inform the mind. And this is the fundamental difference between science and Flat Earth Theory: [b]science looks [i]out[/i] at the universe and sees what it expects to see. Flat Earth Theory looks [i]inward[/i] at what the universe offers to the senses, letting it shape anew prior beliefs and assumptions.[/b]