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At least Socrates thought so :)

That he doesn't accept your premise and has not been convinced by Bose-Einstein condensates

Part of it is

Actually it kind of is.

I think that is called doing philosophy. If I wanted a scientific discussion / debate I wouldn't expect to find it on A PHILOSOPHY FORUM.

Well in the case of the Grateful Dead it is something that they believe that they sense. They also believe that it is music :)

Would you say that as a theory materialism is instrumentally better than idealism? (in the Berkeley / Locke debate)

On the other guy for sure :)

I wont pretend to even understand the last one but you seem to define matter as molecules that are made of atoms that are made of particles. So you ar...

Locke separates, see's and uses words as symbols. Berkeley unites, listens and uses language to express much more than symbols.

Please remember the principle of charity, it is far more likely that either Metaphysician is failing to explain the point or that you are failing to u...

Let's try this from another angle that a 'dead head' can handle ;) Can you please tell me what is matter? Then tell me what is a tree and then what is...

Their existence is in our perception of them.

Because modern democracy just isn't like that any more, it's all image and 'spin'. Countries with smaller populations without religious divides do sti...

Utilitarian philosophy is the philosophy of big business, maximize profits by maximizing short term satisfaction. Consequentialism needs to take long ...

Superb explanation, thank you.

Matter is physical and mind is not.

Which is one of Berkeley's crux points. You have no more proof for materialism than for immaterialism.

Could you please tell me what the criteria are then?

You obviously believe that mental states are brain states which are biological states which are physical states and so mental states are physical stat...

Material is made up of atoms that we can empirically measure. Mental states produce thoughts and ideas which cannot be empirically measured. We do not...

Consciousness does not appear to be material. No one can be sure what the mind is about. We will find out with AI if we can create a consciousness in ...

Which is a claim with no immediate proof. Many scientists, especially in neurosciences are having a hard time with materialism and cannot rule out som...

For all of those not in the Nazi party it was anarchy.

Exactly what Hume means when he defines causation as 'an event followed by another , where the appearance of the former always conveys the thought of ...

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We can only do philosophy from the first person perspective. We can never independently observe ourselves and so we cannot 'step outside' of this pers...

There is a basic problem with Newton's assertion of the independent, absolute existence of matter, force, space and time. Berkeley picks up on this ab...

Big business owns and controls all the media in the west today as much as the Soviet government controlled 'state media' in the USSR. The foundations ...

His key arguments are as plausible as materialism and just as well supported. That is the problem, he cannot provide better support that materialism h...

1. Yes indeed the Quantum theory upsets causation as it does everything else. It does look like the effect can come before the cause, but we can forgi...

In fact he debates every possible weakness in his argument and overcomes each one (not always satisfactorily). Find one objection to his theory that h...

You are all missing the point (well most of you anyway). Destroying the thesis of materialism is easy. Berkeley just applies a sophisticated form of C...

The criminal has provided the explanation of the event not the cause. Agent causation means that I do x, the problem is that there will be as many if ...

Using Nazi Germany as an example is extreme. It was a one off thing and does not represent anything but insanity.

This sums it up for me, "And the madmen all say they hear voices God tells them what to do The wars are all about money They always were And the money...

The democracies we have in the west these days mostly return governments / Parties that spend the most on the campaign and promise tax cuts. The last ...

The SS functioned as a state within a state and an army within an army.

Britain is a Christian country as is France, Germany etc. If a Muslim population becomes the majority then they will rule and change the nature of the...

The demographic time bomb of immigration will force sovereign states to rethink their voter eligibility.

We witness the cause happening before the event - temporal priority, we witness a physical proximity between the two objects - spatial contiguity, and...

Nazi Germany was the very definition of state anarchy. The criminal elements took over all positions of power and they took responsibility very seriou...

Say that A causes B, which causes C. Then we can say that A causes C just as easily a A causes B. Does A always cause B?

Hume claimed causation is Temporal priority, spatial contiguity and constant conjunction. All “immediately temporal” means is that the cause comes bef...

So how do you explain ideas, thoughts and mental processes? Is an idea physical?

Society without responsibility is anarchy.

He meant Temporal.

Why only the immediate ones?

I am working on Hume's two definitions of causation so I would prefer not to leave Hume out of it completely.

So what in your opinion is causation?