Matter; anything that is composed of particles with a half-integer spin (fermions). Hope this helps! |
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Definition of Metaphysics: Appearance and Reality |
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Matter; anything that is composed of particles with a half-integer spin (fermions). Hope this helps! |
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Okay, so you are disregarding radio imaging, ultrasound, electron microscopy, EEG and the rest of vast host of inventions currently used to expand the human perceptive capabilities. By your reasoning, you can't even be sure that you have a brain. If you deny fermions, you must also deny atoms, which are an intregral part of the OP. No one has ever seen an atom in the way that you are describing either. |
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Last edited by Xaqaria; 02-26-2008 at 11:48 AM.
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If you ask me, the materialist model sucks. It's just Nihilism gone haywire. |
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I would say your interpretation of the two is a little skewed; they are almost entirely unrelated. |
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True, my view of them is irrelevant. I was just saying that the materialist's perspective that matter and it's movements are the only thing that exists is premature and nihilist in nature by the sheer fact that it denies any type of spiritual nature or knowledge, in essence deeming life meaningless or at best an ongoing accident. |
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"These paradoxical perceptions of our holonic higher mind are but finite fleeting constructs of the infinite ties that bind." -ME
Well firstly, materialism doesn't address spirituality specifically. I'd also like to point out that one's acceptance of certain material characteristics of the world does not require them to disregard the possibility of anything else existing as well. I've never understood the view that since you believe there is something more than what you can physically see, it must mean that you have to disregard the entire body of evidence pointing at the material nature of the world around us; that because you feel like there is some 'deeper meaning' that has yet to be witnessed, it must mean that the physical model of the world and the mountains of evidence supporting it is an "invention" created by humans to explain things we cannot see (even though in reality we can see them, just not with the naked eye). |
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The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
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By not addressing spiritualism, you mean outright denial and disinterest in it, right? Because, it says that in the very definition of materialism. In general, the metaphysical theory of materialism entails the denial of the reality of spiritual beings, consciousness and mental or psychic states or processes, as ontologically distinct from, or independent of material changes or processes. Since it denies the existence of spiritual beings or forces, materialism typically is allied with atheism or agnosticism. |
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"These paradoxical perceptions of our holonic higher mind are but finite fleeting constructs of the infinite ties that bind." -ME
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