RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 2, 2016 at 6:23 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2016 at 6:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What it's -made- out of isn't. Would you like to pick up that banner though, and continue the brilliant objection to materialism, of the existence of music? I sincerely hope not.
-and so what, so what if there's "more" to music, will that rescue the objection? No...because unless some of that "more" is immaterial, it would be irrelevant. Care to identify the immaterial component? OFC not. This is what I mean, when I air my suspicions that we never really approach a deep conversation of these topics, in these threads. These sorts of statements...even if true, do nothing to modify or rule out the positions to which they are invariably applied. To respond to an explanation fo what music is made out of, vis a vis the relevance of the materialist position...with "well, there;s more -to- music than that" is to massively shift the goalposts and begin bitching about something else entirely...and materialists don't even disagree with you here, in this, anyway. I think there's more to music than sound as well......so what?
-and so what, so what if there's "more" to music, will that rescue the objection? No...because unless some of that "more" is immaterial, it would be irrelevant. Care to identify the immaterial component? OFC not. This is what I mean, when I air my suspicions that we never really approach a deep conversation of these topics, in these threads. These sorts of statements...even if true, do nothing to modify or rule out the positions to which they are invariably applied. To respond to an explanation fo what music is made out of, vis a vis the relevance of the materialist position...with "well, there;s more -to- music than that" is to massively shift the goalposts and begin bitching about something else entirely...and materialists don't even disagree with you here, in this, anyway. I think there's more to music than sound as well......so what?
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