Rosettes and Revelations Pt.1: The Holy City - Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport

[Mark Knowles]

What I'm saying is that the amount of detail, whether it be great or small, it not necessarily the best metric to judge a theory by.

I certainly wouldn't view it as the only metric to judge a theory by. Clearly, the extent to which an explanation of a detail fits consistently and logically with the explanation and identification of the other details identified is important. Merely counting the number of details that a person says that their theory explains and then seeing which person arrives at the largest number is not a good measure. A random assignment of identifications would be in this instance as good or better than any other.

The quality as well as the quantity of the detail identifications is important.

However, I would view the amount of detail that a theory explains as a very important and relevant measure. If one says the rosettes page represents the cosmos, but with theory can explain less than 5% of the detail then one has to question the explicative power of that theory I think.