Reason reveals reality. Reason, rationality, logic, and thought is the method, technique, and process by which reality and truth is discovered, determined, validated, and confirmed. Reality is omnipresent and reason is omnipotent for all sentient beings in conquering and possessing the truth. Reason is the fundamental liberal method.

Rational thought is the best, strongest, and almost only known way for humans to acquire learning, understanding, and knowledge. It is the ideal way of grasping the truth about science, philosophy, and all aspects and subsets of the universe; and of comprehending all of the universe's physical, mental, and even spiritual existents and their characteristics.

To apprehend the facts, truth, and reality about any situation or phenomenon whatsoever, under any circumstances whatsoever, one should apply reason, rationality, logic, and thought in a scientific and philosophic way. This includes taking a scientific and occasionally artistic approach to studying and grasping any part of philosophy, and taking a philosophic and occasionally artistic approach to studying and grasping any part of science. This is because philosophy is a branch of science -- and even of art; and science is a branch of philosophy -- and even art. Mother Nature and Father Reality are artistic and beautiful.

Before one can cogitate, ruminate, and reflect upon a given thing, event, or phenomenon, one must first sense, perceive, and 'observe' it -- as with one's five or so human sensing organs, or with other various faculties, devices, machines, etc. One must sense the studied phenomenon, and its relevant data and information as completely and accurately as possible. One must also take in the deliberately isolated facts and raw information pieces with the highest possible and practical levels of intelligence, perceptively, ambition and aggression -- and always, ideally, while examining them closely and carefully.

The uncovered and revealed data and information should then be described and measured as completely and accurately as possible. One should use the smallest, simplest, easiest, naturalest most basic words and numbers possible. These are the ones which are inherently most solid, sure, trustworthy, reliable, and certain. This is the best form of the sense-data and mini-truths -- if they are the truth -- due to their guileless ingenuous purity, cleanliness, and clarity. This data is also the most likely to be error-free and the easiest to recheck for errors later. It's also the easiest to understand, analyze, interpret, manipulate, and exploit. It's also the least likely to be compromised, corrupted, and debilitated by common assumptions, known established accepted consensus facts, and universally acknowledged near-axiomatic truths -- which nevertheless frequently prove to be false, especially in frontier science and philosophy.

If extremely simple words and numbers aren't possible or practical, then the elementary and fundamental simple phrases and formulas available and helpful should be used. These descriptions, measurements, and various-type formulations should use universal, traditional, unmistakable, unambiguous language with an absolute minimum of jargon, specialized terms, and expert-talk. There should also be a strict minimum of footnotes, asides, detours, forewords, afterwards, and personal or idiosyncratic commentary. The rule is: Say what you mean! Quick! All new and old terms should be fully, concisely, accurately, usefully, and helpfully defined also using universal, traditional, normal, natural language and formula in so far as possible and practical.

All actual and potential opponents of the new discoveries and theories about the universe -- about new supposed truths uncovered and revealed -- should at least be able to agree on what exactly is being discussed, the terms of the debate, and what precisely is in dispute etc. In trying to discover some new aspect of the universe one must always look for and find the most simple, easy, pure, obvious, unmistakable, rudimentary, bedrock, beginning, basic, etc. statement, principle, idea, formula, equation, recipe, organization, categorization, definition, result, solution, and answer possible. Something clear, clean, short, and sweet, ideally.

To study and discover some truth about, or aspect of, reality one should also try to break the subject down and apart into the smallest possible or practical bits. One should isolate and focus in on the tinniest important or relevant component part. Then one should reassemble it in various ways, step-by-step, to it's original form, examining it all the while from these new perspectives. Or one should reassemble the bits in some wildly different ways, if possible and appropriate.

As one looks for the most simple and fundamental, idea and answer, one should also look for the most neat, symmetrical, balanced, elegant, and pretty one -- and even the most sexy, cool, and fun one. As the poet said, "truth is beauty, beauty is truth...."

To discover and determine reality and some part of the universe one must test, challenge, and experiment with it and all its parts, physically and/or mentally. One must intervene in, manipulate, and change the universe -- intelligently, wisely, usefully, practically, productively, efficiently, etc. -- in a planned controlled way so as to see it in a new light and from a new vista. Ideally one will see reality closer and clearer, more deeply and precisely. One should "play god" at all times and force the world to come out and show itself. One must try to make the universe reveal itself, and give up it's secrets to the various observers, experimenters, measurers, and recorders.

Once results are in and some part of reality seems to be freshly uncovered and successfully identified, labeled, categorized, conceptualized, etc., then one should repeat one's observations, experiments, etc., across a wide variety of time and space and circumstances etc. to see if the knowledge gained seems truly universal, independent, solid, clear, etc. -- and thus certain and real. If the end results are thus replicated, then they should be regarded as much more trustworthy, reliable, and sure. This type of validation and second-opinioning leads to true and certain knowledge, the only kind that actually exists.

One should also, if possible and practical, repeat these experiments and review the questions asked and conclusions drawn using new words, numbers, formulas, equations, etc., that still all mean the same thing. One should check and recheck everything, rethinking and reanalyzing.

As one reviews one's tests and data, one should try to study, examine, peruse, reconsider, ruminate, reflect, and cogitate upon them relentlessly and even fanatically, with no idea in mind other than that of achieving factuality and finding pure truth. One should think with, as near to possible, infinite quality (profundity, accuracy, intensity, etc.) and quantity (rapidity, duration, etc.). One should do likewise in studying seemingly already known reality and planning the experiment beforehand; and in observing, measuring, and recording apparent reality both during and after.

One should then get one's allies and friends to do the same.

Then one's opponents and enemies. Especially those who hate, despise, revile, don't remotely sympathize with, and can't possibly understand you; and vice-versa. Defy them to do their worst -- even to the point of offending, insulting, goading, and humiliating them. But still demand, to the extent possible, that they emphasize the failure of the experiment, data, argument, and conclusion -- not the experimenter, data-collector, arguer, and person.

Both welcoming and hostile peer reviewers should consist of people (and intelligent machines and aliens) of both critical and popular success. It should involve those of both high virtue (usually the aristocracy and elite) and high passion (usually the vulgate and masses), both professionally and personally, and in every combination, emphasizing the reviewers that are educated, experienced, perceptive, wise, and zealous.

The greater the virtuosity and virulence of the condemnation, the quicker the truth and reality will usually be discovered. Except for perverse devil's advocacy and defiantly suicidal nihilism and malevolently destructive unhelpful sophistry and skepticism. Criticism that is telling, stinging, stunning, cogent, incisive, ingenious, and brilliant is always to be favored and is one's best friend. Still, weirdoes, wackos, and freaks of the fanatic variety and/or those who are truly crazy, bizarre, ignorant, stupid, loony, raving, etc., are usually not worth listening to, thinking thru, publicly arguing with, or privately refuting.

If necessary and desirable, one should use considerable effort and talent to trick or 'force' others into vetting one's work and suppositions.

When the results are in and conclusions drawn about some aspect of reality, they should be immediately publicized, barring significant social danger. Criticism should be entertained and replied to, from both specialists and generalists, from both the supremely fascinated and enthralled, and the utterly indifferent and bored, and the in-between, and every combination, especially the rabidly unfavorable.

Also when the results are in and conclusions drawn about some seeming new fact and aspect of reality, one must fully but concisely -- with less rhetorical flourish and ornamentation than Aristotle's esoterica, perhaps -- answer all questions, doubts, challenges, objections, problems, and issues raised by all others if the questions etc. or questioners etc. seem to have some merit or minimal popularity. One must reply promptly and in good faith, answering in the way the questions are posed, and on their terms, generally. This is so even if the questions are asked in bad faith and in an unfair forum and without sufficient time or resources to prepare or make a good answer. This is so even if the questioner etc. is outrageously wicked, a malicious devil's advocate, an intellectually bankrupt nihilist, a quibbling pettifogging specious problem-causing rabble-rousing ultra-skeptical sophist, a failure loser who is a social or intellectual gadfly, someone wildly morally cowardly, or someone wildly intellectually dishonest.

Such people -- but of the highest available quality -- should be debated in public in total openness, and with equality, balance, fairness, justice, etc., before one's peers and superiors. One must face direct immediate questions and challenges, and respond in kind. One must summarize or expatiate upon demand to any length whatsoever -- providing the thread of the argument, idea, conclusion, result, etc., isn't lost due to being overabridged (like a Roman encyclopedia) or swamped in detail (like irrelevant trivia). No matter what the (unfair) conciseness or (unnecessary) elaboration, one must answer in perfect pure organization, and in common or sophisticated language, as requested. One must defend oneself and one's thesis under their time restraints and conditions, on their terms, and in their arena when they are fully prepared. Then one must essentially repeat this without end if they think they can do better next time. And one must always seek to replace these active doubters with better, smarter, tougher, nastier opponents -- going far out of one's way to train and make them, if necessary. One must forever seek out intellectual enemies who are more worthy, challenging, hateful, and fearsome.

In seeking the truth -- and how to comprehend and thus master reality, and then dominate the universe -- one must make an especial effort to question and challenge really bedrock, baseline, beginning, fundamental "truths," and beliefs that seem almost axiomatic and/or unamenable to improvement. One must do so even if the going is slow and hard with only subtle, tricky, delicate, nuanced progress of a most unsatisfactory sort to show for it. Of course, one's time is limited (human beings are still mortal, alas) and you must invest it wisely and with the best cost-benefit ratio.

One must also -- as you learn and progress -- constantly seek to modernize, contemporize, update, etc. as you refine, reform, rework, and improve upon -- and possibly perfect -- old knowledge and truths.

One must also constantly seek to reintegrate the new knowledge -- smoothly, deftly, elegantly, and in perfect organization -- into the old. One might thus learn even more from the inherent comparing and contrasting of this process. Possibly more than the original study or experiment. And one will surely help others learn, who will then likely return the favor.

Finally, one should seek truth, facts, education, information, and knowledge about reality and the universe at all times under all circumstances with full force and commitment: aggressively, assertively, ambitiously, assiduously, tenaciously, yearningly, hopefully, excitedly, and joyfully. One should do so even if, as it were, it costs you all of your life, happiness, and virtue. But with full confidence and trust that no such thing, conflict, dilemma, or sacrifice is necessary or even possible inasmuch as the universe isn't even remotely so malicious, miserable, hostile, hateful, contradictory, or universally destructive. One should, rather, pursue reality with complete confidence that any increase in knowledge or truth will ineluctably increase your personal power and greatness, and thus your potential and likelihood for strong, immense, profound happiness.