There simply aren’t any “true tree of life” or Higgs particles”

When we discuss reality, we have only two fundamentally different approaches to reality to choose between: 

1. to accept that reality is infinitely changing (ie, nominalism - the basis of knowledge), or 

2. to change infinitely (ie, class-realism - the basis of belief). 

Option 1 means that we can reach consistency in reasoning (as with ZFC), whereas option 2 means that we will be consistently inconsistent. 

However, the possible consistency of option 1 is ambiguous, because there are always more than one solution to any particular problem, whereas the consistent inconsistency of option 2 is invisible for those that choose this option, because it resides between assumption and conclusion in logical reasoning. Together, these facts thus mean that if we want to discuss reality, we can only choose between being either ambiguous or contradictory.

These facts are problematic for “science” in a loose sense (ie, not distinguishing between knowledge and belief), because they mean that the dream of an unambiguous and non-contradictory description of reality is an impossibility. We simply can’t find an unambiguous and non-contradictory description of reality.

It means that the assertions that there is a “true tree of life” by cladists and that there are “Higgs particles” by particle physicists are wrong. There simply aren’t any such things.