RE: Idealism is more Rational than Materialism
February 2, 2015 at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2015 at 5:13 am by Rational AKD.)
(February 2, 2015 at 4:57 am)Alex K Wrote: As I said, you have simply renamed "the material" to "the mental". As soon as you do anything beyond this, you are disregarding occam's razor.no I have not. your materialist view is that matter/physicality is fundamental and my idealist view is that mind/consciousness is fundamental. you do not have proof of your metaphysical view so you cannot beg the question asserting matter is fundamentally matter. I challenge your metaphysical view saying idealism, the view that mind is fundamental and everything is derived or comprised of it; fits better with what we experience. it is not relabeling, it is question the fundamental nature of the world. what i'm proposing is much more than semantics. the difference is you think physical is fundamental and consciousness is derived and I think consciousness is fundamental and physical is derived. see the difference yet? I suggest you take some lessens in epistemology and metaphysics as you do not understand the difference between materialism and idealism.
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