RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 6, 2016 at 6:23 am
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2016 at 6:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 6, 2016 at 12:06 am)bennyboy Wrote:(October 5, 2016 at 9:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: ...how can this fail to get through? It's pointless to request specific scientific demonstration of materialism. That's all it -can- provide. That's all it talks about. The minute you've assigned any credibility to any particular piece of science, you have assigned credibility to a materialists position. It self limits and self describes -as such-. I'm not interested, again, in proving to you that science works and can be trusted, proving to you that what science says..is true. You get to make that determination for yourself.
So your defense against my assertion that materialism is an arbitrary philosophical assumption is to go to science, and you say science is defined by a belief in the material world view? Circles are bad, man. Circles. . . are bad.
WTF are you talking about? Why even quote me? Theres no reason for me to repeat myself a third time. You're not going to get anything you didn't get the other two. If you think that science is somehow in the business of providing circular reasoning...I don't have the patience to prove to you..as I keep saying, that science works and can be trusted. But why, then, even ask to be shown any science, about anything, whatsoever?
@Maelstrom, LOL, yeah, there are hard sciences and there are sciences. I jest, I jest. Sociology does have hard sci in it, too, lol.
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