Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 7, 2016 at 11:22 am
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2016 at 11:58 am by LadyForCamus.)
If you agree with the above; that the choice is totally arbitrary; then any criticism you hurl at material monism is completely vapid, especially if you are appealing to scientific evidence, or lack thereof.
Weighing evidence is GREAT use of your reasoning skills, so you're breaking your "rules" already if you are using it in this debate. Reaching a conclusion that idealism is a favorable alternative to materialism (or the charge that "mind is immaterial") based on a lack of scientific evidence proving otherwise is not only appealing to human reason, it's fallacious reasoning at that.
Weighing evidence is GREAT use of your reasoning skills, so you're breaking your "rules" already if you are using it in this debate. Reaching a conclusion that idealism is a favorable alternative to materialism (or the charge that "mind is immaterial") based on a lack of scientific evidence proving otherwise is not only appealing to human reason, it's fallacious reasoning at that.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
