RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 4, 2016 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2016 at 11:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Directly to the contention, again, that all we have are ideas. I have an experience of cold weather. I feel the cold. I see the thermostat drop. I see the ground freeze. I can quantify the differences between frozen and thawed ground. My own subjective exprience of things does not seem to be involved in what a sensor array out in a field 500 miles from me is up to, or to another person who experiences and records the same things with the same and different instruments. It very much seems that the temperature, and not an idea, and certainly not my experience, is dropping. The sheer, overwhelming weight of what I accept as evidence that there is indeed something called a temperature, which can drop, which exists apart from me and independent of my experience or even -any- human beings experience of it, is undeniable.
This, to me, is compelling. I'm satisfied. You may not be. You're offering the know-nothings objection to everything, including idealism..which, while in itself is a perfectly valid objection to everything, the specific instances and manners in which you support it are nothing other than a refutation of the very objection itself. If you can't accept that the universe exists, then what it's made of..be it material or ideas, is moot point.
This, to me, is compelling. I'm satisfied. You may not be. You're offering the know-nothings objection to everything, including idealism..which, while in itself is a perfectly valid objection to everything, the specific instances and manners in which you support it are nothing other than a refutation of the very objection itself. If you can't accept that the universe exists, then what it's made of..be it material or ideas, is moot point.
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