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well as its components, and much more in the article "A new theory of everything."
Harman criticizes the value of science and its significance in how people perceive the
world. Physics must attempt to develop their "theory of everything" through the use of
string theory. The string theory might be the most effective in explaining the makeup of
stuff and, by extension, the universe’s structure. Harman, however, believes that string
theory falls victim to four critical mistakes that prevent it from serving as the foundation
for a theory of everything.
However, he believes that material physics falls victim to four critical mistakes that
prevent it from serving as the foundation for a theory of everything. Everything that is
real must be physical. Whatever it is it must be fundamental and uncomplicated.
Smallness, a theory that says that all genuine things in existence are made up of minute
components, is where this second claim can be found. However, the author contends
that smallness ignores the emerging phenomena. When components combine to create a
new one, this is an example of emergent behavior. Let's take a closer look at the
situation: when couples get married, a brand-new and unpredicted anti-fictiction and
unexpected thing emerge. Physics, and especially string theory, are focused on the
discovery of real physical objects, while fictional ones are of no interest. A key tenet of
the OOO is that a theory of everything has to be capable of accounting the non-physical
things in the same way that it can for imaginary ones. Insofar as it deals with tangible
beings, it also deals with those. Whatever something is, it must have the ability to be
precisely represented as a propositional literal. The fourth claim is false because it is
literalistic.
With the help of flat ontology, Levi Bryant has achieved success. The phrase was first
used by a British science philosopher. Roy Bhaskar, despite having exactly the opposite
connotation. However, OOO employs "flat ontology" in DeLanda's sense, as a word
with a favorable connotation, although it should be highlighted that OOO does not
consider flat ontology to be an unqualified good. Briefly simply said, flat ontology is a
promising beginning for philosophy but a letdown in the end. As an illustration, it
was argued previously in this chapter that philosophy must be able to discuss anything,
including Sherlock Holmes, real people and animals, chemicals, and hallucinations,
without hastily excluding some of them or hurriedly grading them from more to less
real. We may have prejudices that lead us to believe that philosophy must only address
natural objects and ignore synthetic materials, which we could reject as unreal.
Other types of realism have also been critiqued by object-oriented ontology, in addition
to anti-realism. The author even asserted that the term "realism" will soon be irrelevant
as a criterion for differentiating across philosophies given the rise in the number of
speculative realist adherents. He has already produced multiple texts outlining the
distinctions between OOO and other realism, which he also criticizes for being
insufficiently realistic and having objects that are "useless fictions," for this reason.