RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
September 30, 2016 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2016 at 11:08 am by bennyboy.)
(September 30, 2016 at 3:36 am)Gemini Wrote: Two cases where were in a similar position. Alfred Wegener had evidence that continental drift had happened, but he didn't have a mechanism to explain it. Darwin had evidence for evolution, but the mechanisms driving it wouldn't be apparent until the discovery of genetics. Those promissory notes turned out good. It's fine to have evidence for something without a robust explanation of mechanism.
The difference is that continental drift and the unknown mechanism both share the same context-- earthly stuff, doing stuff. Mind/brain/materialism etc. is very much different than that. To draw a parallel, it would be like you have to ASSUME that there are fossils there, despite nobody being able to actually see them, or even really describe them very well, and THEN explain the mechanism for their presence. Nobody would say that's science, I think.
