No, one couldn't; because roywiggins isn't arguing that the directions don't exist. Given that the ideas of there being no privileged frame of reference and th

No, one couldn't; because roywiggins isn't arguing that the directions don't exist. Given that the ideas of there being no privileged frame of reference and the universe being isotropic are fairly basic concepts of modern physics, it is quite surprising how many people don't grasp the quite simple argument that "the" is the wrong article to use. It was even wrong by 1884 standards, although one could excuse a treatment of it at the novice level from explaining that not all subspaces of 4-dimensional spaces are necessarily parallel.