There are some universal truths. I know there are 5.7 million BTUs in a barrel of crude oil. That is the truth. And if I should take the postmodern philosophers perspective on that, he or she would say that that concept is a human invention. Those units that you just mentioned of measurements are not out there in nature. They are human inventions. So what you just said is they would say just aHuman invention. But it does not negate the fact that they are describing something fundamental deep down that we need to respect. It could have been described in another language, but there is some sort of reality down there.

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