Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[Neo-Scholastic]

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?

Maybe because proponents of materialism are vague and slippery about what is and isn't included in their theories. All they do is just repeat that everything is material, material, material, then try to sneak intentionality in through the back door by redefining it down.