RE: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
September 1, 2016 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2016 at 5:51 pm by Whateverist.)
(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 causes us to to doubt that we can contain the world in language or our thoughts. Science has not disproved the existence of other dimensions.
Why would people be unwilling to acknowledge the possibility that spiritual entities exist? I talk to them every day and they talk back to me, using English words and language. I am sure this is real and most societies have had some sort of concept of this. Why would people be unwilling to acknowledge there could be other life besides human life?
What? Is that all? Of course there is other kinds of life besides humans. In addition to the entire animal an plant kingdoms there are also the beings encountered within books. There you will encounter Cersei Lannister, Hercules, Mary, Thor and David Coperfield just to mention a few. Beyond those there are all the beings I meet in my dreams and a few I've wondered about on drugs. Sure there are lots of beings besides humans, it turns out not all of them have a pulse.
