RE: Short essay on dualism, idealism, & materialism as concerns Q: What is a table?
February 26, 2017 at 3:16 pm
(February 25, 2017 at 11:06 pm)Mudhammam Wrote: I know the materialist/reductionist response is to argue that Leibniz' and similar POVs are making a category mistake, often comparing "mind" to something like "team spirit" or an entity like a "nation," but that doesn't instill much conviction for me. Arguments like those that Rawls seemed to make don't really sufficiently account for or explain this so-called "unity of apperception" (i.e consciousness) and all that goes with it -- but maybe that is just MY experience.
I don't think the point of a rebuttal to an objection is to instill conviction in you that the position which has been objected to is true...but that the objection to that proposition is not properly formed, and therefore uninformative.
"While position x may not be accurate, the objection y does not demonstrate this as stated"
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