Materialism In Western civilization, materialism is the oldest philosophical tradition. It reached its full classical form in the atomism of Democritus and Epicurus in the 4th century BCE. Epicurus argued that reality consisted of invisible and indivisible particles of free-falling matter call...
Colour itself is not a property of the atomic structures of bodies: neither Locke's corpuscularian hypothesis nor the atomic theory of modern physics supposes that the colours we see are properties for the atoms or of collections of atoms" (Landesman, 29). ...
Donald Davidson: "Mental Events" "Mental Events", by Donald Davidson, defends a view of Token physicalism known as Anomalous Monism. Token physicalism claims that every event that falls under a mental-event kind, also falls under a physical-event kind. According to Davidson, "Anomalous Monism r...
God himself would have difficulties working with today's coding. The difficulty with coding is simply not knowing all of the language to properly code. Obviously, a hole in your knowledge of the coding language will lead to errors. If God had to conform to the rules of code when creating the world, obviously he would run into some problems. To code properly, we must all conform to the language and rules that apply to it. ...