RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 5, 2016 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2016 at 3:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Indeed, they have so many literal and figurative attributes of a material thing one wonders why a person would bring them up if they -wanted- to argue for idealism. Then it dawns on you...it's that the words sound so similar.
Idealism as argued is the notion that the world is made up of the "ideas" you have in your head, that you can assign no confidence to anything outsidfe of your head, or not one of those "ideas". It doesn't matter that this is not idealism any more than the various descriptions of materialism we've been offered are not materialism. That's how people take both concepts, and clearly that's how they pit them against each other in their minds, whatever -those- are made of.
Idealism as argued is the notion that the world is made up of the "ideas" you have in your head, that you can assign no confidence to anything outsidfe of your head, or not one of those "ideas". It doesn't matter that this is not idealism any more than the various descriptions of materialism we've been offered are not materialism. That's how people take both concepts, and clearly that's how they pit them against each other in their minds, whatever -those- are made of.
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