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What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?

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RE: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?

August 31, 2016 at 9:19 am (This post was last modified: August 31, 2016 at 9:23 am by Neo-Scholastic.)

(August 29, 2016 at 10:25 pm)joseph_ Wrote: Materialism is dead nowadays as a serious philosophical theory. I think the Kantian realization that the world is dependent on our senses...

I don't think that's quite right. Kant's position was that the mind shoehorns the affect of an incomprehensible reality-as-it-is into comprehensible categories. Otherwise I agree that materialism is a dying paradigm, which is why most serious atheistic thinkers have made the semantic shift to 'physicalism'. No one seriously believes anymore that the world is made of indivisible particles that interact mechanistically.

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