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Are all metaphysical views equally credible?	tonyrey	05/04/07
If not why not? How would you judge which view is the most credible: materialism, idealism or dualism?
Clarification/Follow-up by tonyrey on 05/04/07 9:02 pm: DC, Where do you think the power of reason originates? Clarification/Follow-up by Dark_Crow on 05/05/07 2:59 pm: Compare two thoughts and reason follows- at least if you reach a conclusion- it can be called reasoning of the base kind.
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Dark_Crow		05/04/07
The causal connections of perceptions: Historically God is the source of our perceiving a tree because he has put that image in out spirit-mind, and we can know and rely on this through faith. Following this theory, George Berkeley rejects the theory of physical reality and instead theorizes that God directly feeds us perceptions of external things i.e. Idealism. Hume argued that it was experience that drove all of our mental operations– including our most rational ideas–denying the spiritual i.e. Materialism. Metaphysical dualism of the mental and the non-mental is no more than a fork, as far as I can tell, in Berkely’s theory. The issue simply comes down to whether there is some force that is not a material substance. There may be a force, perhaps similar to what is termed Gravity, that is not material substance, but to start assigning attributes to [it?] like the power to reason seems quite foolish.

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