gravity, reality, are not facts, are not theories

First, I will rephrase your argument . You are asserting that gravity is a real thing. It is not a "fact" and it is not a "theory". That is to say- you are claiming it exists outside of the human synthetic framework of "facts" and "theory". In your view, facts are measurements or observations from the past. Gravity exists beyond this. Theories are explanatory frameworks, and gravity exists beyond this as well. Gravity does exist as a part of the framework of facts Gravity as a phenomena exists primarily as a set of observations. If you drop an object, you see it fall. This becomes a fact at that point- we name this observable fact gravity. We observe objects staying on top of tables and not floating away- this is a fact. We also name this fact gravity. Gravity exists fully within the framework of facts. The only question with this is- does gravity exist OUTSIDE the framework of facts? Does it exist independently of observation? If an object lies on the table, and no one sees it sitting there, is gravity actually happening, or not? Clearly there is no person there to call it "gravity". But there is an observation point- the universe itself, as it is unfolding, with or without a sentient observer, has the object on the table. If one were to consider the object resting on the table as a fact whether or not it is recorded by an observer, then we must say that yes, indeed, it is a fact that gravity exists. The only time gravity would cease to exist would be in a universe with a single object, which had no other object to be affected by its gravitational pull. In this universe, there is no fact of gravity. But we will also claim in this universe gravity essentially does not exist at all- as it has no affect on anything. In a universe where gravity has no affect on anything- there is no fact or observation that it is exerting its pull- it actually is not happening. It is not real. Therefore, gravity exists ONLY in the context of its generation of facts or observation, and does NOT exist outside the context of its generation of facts or observation. Gravity as a phenomena is contingent on the facts it generates. It is not a real thing without these facts. Gravity does exist as a part of a theory. There was a preliminary theory of gravity put forth by Newton which explained very accurately the motion of the planets. Very careful observation has demonstrated this first theory needed refinement. Einstein generated a more comprehensive theory of gravity with general relativity, which more accurately describes the phenomena we call gravity. We must recognize that this theory as well, may fall short of fully describing gravity. Does this mean gravity is not a theory? Does gravity exist outside of the framework of theory? Theories are fully human synthetic constructs. Do things exist outside of human synthetic constructs? Of course. But we attach names to human synthetic constructs that are also synthetic. The word "gravity" is made up. The theory of gravity is made up. When we talk about gravity, we are talking about a made up word with a made up theory about it. And you are claiming that when we use the word gravity, it is pointing to something other than the theory- it exists outside of the theory. You are essentially claiming that a made up word points to something real. The problem with this is that when we use language we are always specifically using it in the context of the shared synthetic fiction. We can't use language outside of this. We can pretend that we can infer a reality outside of our shared notion of understanding. But we can't ever know it is there. If we live in a giant computer simulation, where gravity is a being created by the computer program- then gravity does not "exist" outside of our shared notion of it. It would not be real at this point. When you vanquish a dragon in a computer game, it wasn't a real dragon you defeated. It was a shared fiction. Is gravity a shared fiction? It is a shared fiction as long as we agree that we always may have an incomplete understanding. Since we have demonstrated again and again we have an incomplete understanding, we already know that gravity as a word exists only as a shared fiction. It exists as the theory with which we describe it.