[lisper]

This is exactly right, and it is exactly what makes quantum mechanics and relativity so hard to wrap your brain around because by the time you get around to learning them you have almost certainly deeply internalized a classical model of the world. It's just obvious that classical mechanics is "correct", that the world consists of objects embedded in a three-dimensional space that exist in specific places at specific times, and even talking about a world where this is not true doesn't even make sense, let alone qualify as a viable candidate for actual truth.

It is equally "obvious" that the heavens are governed by different laws of physics than the earth, because things on earth fall down if unsupported and naturally come to rest and things in the heavens don't. And of course all of these things are equally wrong.

One can and should apply the same lesson to social and political statements. For example, people get hung up on arguing about things like whether or not "God exists" as if they were arguing about a question of objective fact when actually what they are arguing about is the meaning of the words "God" and "exists."

I wrote a longer take on all this about six years ago:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/02/31-flavors-of-ontology.ht...