RE: Berkeley's Idealism
March 14, 2012 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 4:22 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 14, 2012 at 3:25 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 14, 2012 at 1:13 pm)Chuck Wrote: Yes, I here by refute it.
What can be asserted without evidence can be just as compellingly refuted with another assertion to the contrary.
So a Berkeley Idealist is every bit as reasonable in their assertion as your refutation to the contrary?
No. You see, the assertion is without proof or evidence, and without even theroetically falsifiable prediction. So it occupies the absolute lowest level in the pit of worthlessness. It is even more worthless than an assertion that is plainly wrong but which is specific enough for the observer to determine how wrong and why wrong. So the assertion is useless even for the meagerest purpose of learning from its own error.
The dismissal of it, on the other hand, is not without evidence. It is based on the evidence that the assertion lacks any sort of evidence that warrants a response other than dismissal.
