I shall dedicate this thread to my new pseudoscientific theory. Idea Theory Idea theory is the most general and inclusive theory that can possibly exist as it recognizes that all things are ideas if they are considered by the mind. The idea of all possible ideas must therefore exist. Containment itself is an idea and we see that the set concept cannot be the most general and most inclusive formalism for all possible ideas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_universals Ideas relate to other ideas in a hierarchy, where everywhere in the hierarchy is both top and bottom. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! "I think, therefore I exist" Existence and ideas share ontological status as being the most general and inclusive. A set is always an idea but an idea is not necessarily always a set. Ideas are therefore more universal than the set concept. All ideas exist in the abstract sense and all existing things must be expressed as ideas, thus they share ontological primacy. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Ultimately all ideas are timeless archetypes or "forms" and the mind discovers these archetypes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms#What_are_the_Forms.3F