tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post7273289249453118281..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Materialism and Empirio-criticismLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-49801581329138078852008-12-14T10:03:00.000-07:002008-12-14T10:03:00.000-07:00Is it a fair restatement of your argument to say t...<I>Is it a fair restatement of your argument to say that nothing about our subjective experience makes any fucking sense without positing the existence of external reality?</I><BR/><BR/>Yes. More precisely without positing <I>some</I> sort of externalism. And once you have externalism, you lose solipsism, which is a necessary conclusion of subjective idealism.<BR/><BR/>Essentially Lenin makes the argument (with devastating effect, IMnsHO) that the empirio-critics (Mach, Avernus, etc.) are in the same bind, and simply obfuscate their materialism under a layer of philosophical bullshit.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-21425328149980087852008-12-14T09:47:00.000-07:002008-12-14T09:47:00.000-07:00We are constantly flooded with experiential eviden...<I>We are constantly flooded with experiential evidence of externalism and thus materialism. There is simply no way to construct an ontology without giving my mental objects the properties of independence, of the capability to surprise.</I><BR/><BR/>Interesting. Is it a fair restatement of your argument to say that nothing about our subjective experience makes any fucking sense without positing the existence of external reality?<BR/><BR/>My own personal position on achieving logical or empirical certainty on the materialism versus subjective idealism distinction is, Who gives a flying fuck? I don't see how I lose anything by just going with the handiness of materialism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com