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My case for an Idealistic Monism
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RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism
Your answer to every difficulty seems to be to postulate that whatever problematic stuff you're faced with is, "just another kind of idea." Beyond the fact that this ends up as an explanation that doesn't really explain why each of these ideas is the way it is — resulting in an explanation that doesn't actually explain anything — you end up with the world being carved up in much the same way that it was carved up before you postulated that it's all "ideas," only replacing the "stuff" it's made up of being postulated to be made up of "mind" rather than made up of "reality." It seems the only benefit is to save the original internal mind stuff from needing to be explained, while creating greater mysteries which you can't resolve with appeal to anything but making everything a "brute idea," similar to making everything a "brute fact." I don't see what, besides consciousness, is rescued by this approach.
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My case for an Idealistic Monism - by bennyboy - March 31, 2014 at 10:28 am
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by archangle - March 31, 2014 at 11:08 am
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by Faith No More - March 31, 2014 at 11:16 am
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by bennyboy - March 31, 2014 at 5:10 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by Whateverist - March 31, 2014 at 11:35 am
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by Angrboda - March 31, 2014 at 12:15 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by archangle - March 31, 2014 at 6:08 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by ManMachine - March 31, 2014 at 6:51 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by Angrboda - March 31, 2014 at 7:20 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by ManMachine - March 31, 2014 at 7:29 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by bennyboy - March 31, 2014 at 8:45 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by ManMachine - April 1, 2014 at 4:03 am
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by Angrboda - April 1, 2014 at 10:45 am
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by bennyboy - April 1, 2014 at 6:38 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by archangle - March 31, 2014 at 7:33 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by Neo-Scholastic - March 31, 2014 at 8:12 pm
RE: My case for an Idealistic Monism - by Whateverist - April 1, 2014 at 9:01 pm

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