RE: Idealism is more Rational than Materialism
February 2, 2015 at 7:30 am
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2015 at 7:39 am by robvalue.)
Well you answered all the questions yourself, so I guess I don't need to.
It doesn't answer my question. You seem to be appealing to, "How else could things work without a soul..."
But I still don't know what a soul is. Saying what it is not, does not help me know what it is. I know what it is as a metaphor of course.
Methodological materialism/naturalism. That is what I subscribe to. I don't assume there is only the material, but I don't assume that there is anything else either, until such time as there is evidence for it.
It's like a-nonmaterialism.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Methodological_naturalism
Im not going to carry on with this too much longer, because these non-material things tend to go on indefinitely with assertions covering assertions, and vague definitions covering other vague definitions, while the whole thing is unfalsifiable. So unless there is something to get my grubby mits on, I don't see the point of such speculation. But feel free to prove me wrong
It doesn't answer my question. You seem to be appealing to, "How else could things work without a soul..."
But I still don't know what a soul is. Saying what it is not, does not help me know what it is. I know what it is as a metaphor of course.
Methodological materialism/naturalism. That is what I subscribe to. I don't assume there is only the material, but I don't assume that there is anything else either, until such time as there is evidence for it.
It's like a-nonmaterialism.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Methodological_naturalism
Im not going to carry on with this too much longer, because these non-material things tend to go on indefinitely with assertions covering assertions, and vague definitions covering other vague definitions, while the whole thing is unfalsifiable. So unless there is something to get my grubby mits on, I don't see the point of such speculation. But feel free to prove me wrong
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