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Thread #139650   Message #3223737
Posted By: Amos
15-Sep-11 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your Brain, Your Brain on God
Subject: RE: BS: Your Brain, Your Brain on God
On the other hand, to mistakenly consider an aggregate of actual entities as a final reality is to commit the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness [see below]; Descartes was guilty of this fallacy when he identified mind and matter as two distinct kinds of reality.


Oh, really. Remembering where you were on 9-11, or your thirteenth birthday, first kiss, or last triumph, for example invokes images that are clearly real (whether because they are believed or because they are experienced) and yet they are clearly not of the same order of concretude as films, holograms made in light, video pictures, or any other sort of material picture. Wherein lies the fallacy? Or are you going to commit the ultimate arrogance of asserting that these things are not real (except for yours) because they can't be objectified?


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