Brent Meeker wrote:
> > For the same reason they are far more Christians than Buddhist. And
> > none of your materialist even try to define matter. They take it for
> > granted, following mainly Aristotle. Almost all materialist react by
> > knocking a table when they want me to realize matter exists.
>
> But that is consistent. You assume arithmetic is real and so you seek an arithmetical definition of
> matter. A scientists assume the matter gives an operational definition, e.g. as Vic Stenger does:
> matter is what kicks back when you kick it. You cannot criticize people who don't believe in
> Platonia for giving non-platonic definitions.
hear,hear!
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Received on Tue Jul 11 2006 - 20:26:28 PDT