I agree, Joe. There is certain mindset - and this is not an accusation! - which likes to think of the world in true/false terms. And there's good reason to do that, since it is the basis of much of the advancement of the last few millennia, whether we are talking science or philosophy. As an approach to life, it is pretty solid and I have built my own career on it as well.

But no-one should fall into the trap of assuming that mindset is sufficient for everything. It would be an odd stance to say Beethoven's Pastoral is true or false. [I pick music as less contentious, but I think these points also apply to religion]. You can build theories of music, certainly, but they are not like scientific theories because they can never be true or false; the best they ever get to is 'usually, often'. And to an extent they are also 'ring-fenced philosophies' (on the assumption I understood what that term meant). We might perform MRI scans and observe which parts or the brain are stimulated when certain music is heard, but I can't really see any composer doing what they do differently as a result of learning that.