RE: Seeing red
January 18, 2016 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2016 at 1:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 18, 2016 at 1:10 am)bennyboy Wrote:(January 18, 2016 at 12:00 am)Rhythm Wrote: You and I find different things convincing. We may never agree on that. Your claim, however, that materialism can't account for x...... and idealism works just like it...is irrational.
Idealism doesn't work just like it. It sub-suuuuuuumes it. Sub-suuuuuummmes, mind you.
Am I supposed to be amused or insulted with this? Dead serious.
subsumes
Quote:include or absorb (something) in something else.
If you tell me that materialism is an insufficient explanation for how a watch works, let alone how the universe works....and you tell me that idealism includes it, absorbs it.....You have included and absorbed that which you have declared to be insufficient.
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