RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
September 30, 2016 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2016 at 2:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 30, 2016 at 1:07 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(September 30, 2016 at 11:48 am)robvalue Wrote: I subscribe to methodological naturalism (or materialism I suppose). I find no need to assume the testable world is all there is. But for all practical purposes, anything untestable can be ignored. You don't have any choice, in fact.
Well that pretty much rules out the arts and humanities.
....lol.....why? Art and humanity exist, and are both material......If you want to know whether or not the mona lisa exists, or whether or not james joyce wrote the greatest novel ever written - it's fairly simple to devise a test. This is the kind of claim that leaves me wondering what the opponents of materialism think materialism is. It suggests, to me, that their objections are likely to be a long list of non-sequiturious arguments from consequence and ignorance.
"We don't know this, we can't explain that...this other thing I like -i think- would be affected!"
So what, so what....and so what?
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