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All Blog Posts Tagged 'materialism' (4)

So who has some time to kill? (Substance dualism) (This would make a great episode of the podcast btw)

Ok so here's the deal. I made a topic on whether or not the soul exists on another message board. I got a guy that suggested I read his page.



Here's a link to a possibly updated page, )you can type it into Google, minus the HTTP// part, then click cached, to view the old copy I looked at if he does update it.)



http://sophoslogos.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/the-mind-body-problem/



Ok so… Continue

Added by Cory Silver on January 5, 2011 at 6:31am — 1 Comment

Free Will: the Intelligent Choice

Determinism Versus Free Will: The Difference is Options

In the determinism versus free will debate, determinists believe causality and choice are mutually exclusive – while compatibilists believe they are intimately intertwined. I will attempt to present a rational argument for my particular brand of compatibilism. Mine is a unique (I can’t find my central tenet repeated by anybody else on the Internet) and forceful argument that explains how free will is compatible…

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Added by Atheist Exile on February 6, 2010 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

On the relation between toilet brushes, subjective existence and gods or: How I learned to deny material gods and debunk the illogical claims of shit-for-brain know-it-all pricks

Abstract



This is a brief attempt to clarify certain ideas that deal with observers, their observations, physical objects and certain traits that require a mind to exist.



Objectively true statements are true whether they are observed or not; subjectively true statements require an observer, thus they are never objectively true.



If a certain trait requires a mind to exist, then it is a trait that logically doesn't exist outside the mind; it is a subjective… Continue

Added by Tapio Kortesaari on August 1, 2009 at 3:00am — 3 Comments

The Unbearable Lightness of Materialism

Sometimes theists leave comments on my primary blog, planetologist.net. Recently a comment in response to my screed against Rick Warren prompted a reader - actually not a raving lunatic, rather a pretty calm but (sadly) theist writer - to leave a comment that invoked the M word... materialism. There were also a fair number of "quote me and then argue against my quote" comments, which I find almost as… Continue

Added by Planetologist on January 29, 2009 at 10:34am — No Comments

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