(February 2, 2015 at 1:06 pm)Rational AKD Wrote:indeed that is your materialistic belief... but I said mind is most fundamental to our perception... not most fundamental period. if can't be denied mental states are fundamental to perception. we only debate on what is fundamental behind that perception. is it material? or is it still mind? perhaps mind extra to your own but still mind. why postulate the existence of material when only mind is necessary to explain experience? you can't verify material is real because all you have is a mental perception of material. you don't actually perceive matter.
You are playing some silly word game with 'perception'. We perceive something, perception is the process. You can't loop it back on itself and claim that is all that is necessary.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.