(September 8, 2011 at 7:23 pm)Fred Wrote: You are looking for examples of materialism being an a priori conclusion? They are littered all over this board and any other board where the topic comes up. It's a given that "there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for __," whether the blank is God, mind being non-reducible to brain function, or anything that isn't in line with the materialist view. That's an a priori stance right there, and the only interest anyone seems to have in any evidence is to see how quickly it can be dismissed.
Okay, let me see if I understand. This evidence is dismissed because it doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiny, but the scientific method uses materialism as its basis for measurement. Therefore, the evidence against materialism is dismissed because it doesn't meet the standards of materialism. Is that it?
My attempts to comment on this further would be futile because I am not well versed in the scientific method. So hopefully someone more familiar with it can take it from here.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
