Re: Dreaming On

From: David Nyman <david.nyman.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:56:13 +0100

2009/7/30 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>:

> Unless an argument is put forward for Platonism being
> preferable to materialism, it doesn't get off the ground.

But surely it's already up in the air?

David

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> On 28 July, 00:34, David Nyman <david.ny....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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>> AFAICS, until these 'under-the-carpet' issues are squarely faced, the
>> customary waving away of the brain-mind relation as a simplistic
>> functional identity remains pure materialist prejudice, and on the
>> basis of the above, flatly erroneous. To say the least, any such
>> relation is moot, absent a radically deeper insight into the mind-body
>> problem.
>
> Unless an argument is put forward for Platonism being
> preferable to materialism, it doesn't get off the ground.
> >
>

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