home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.philosophy      Didn't Freud have sex with his mother?      170,335 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 169,476 of 170,335   
   Richmond to nospam@example.net   
   Re: What are 3 arguments in favour of ph   
   05 Aug 24 14:46:13   
   
   From: dnomhcir@gmx.com   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > On Sun, 4 Aug 2024, oldernow wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-08-04, D  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> What are 3 arguments in favour of physicalism?   
   >>   
   >> Arguments are mental phenomena. There's much hilarity in   
   >> having to lean on mind to attempt to "prove" physicalism....   
   >>   
   >   
   > Ah, but you see, either we have the world, or the world + x, where the   
   > x factor is any type of idealist world or theory. St Occam teaches us   
   > not to needlessly multiply complexities, so the world it is.   
   >   
   > Another approach is of course that the mind is based on matter. So   
   > without the world, no mind. ;)   
      
   Surely solipsism is simpler than all this unnecessary sophistry?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca