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Materialists are apparently not rationalists, that's for sure.
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We know of her radical propensities from her participation in a "National Mass Meeting of Radicals, Socialists, Infidels, Materialists, Free Religionists and Free Thinkers" in 1874.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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We know of her radical propensities from her participation in a "National Mass Meeting of Radicals, Socialists, Infidels, Materialists, Free Religionists and Free Thinkers" in 1874.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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Materialists cannot explain how the mental could arise from the physical, but the main sticking point now is around “intentionality”, which is further up the chain of consciousness than before (and which is really related to participation, since intentionality implies that there is a subject, not just objects).
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Materialists struggle to explain away all that obvious evidence of direction over time.
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Materialists denied the existence of objective moral standards, claiming that environment dictates our behavior and beliefs.
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From these questions, I've formulated four categories of American Dreamers: Traditional Materialists who define it as material success; Secular Spiritualists, who see it more through spiritual fulfillment; Deferred Dreamers, who believe their children are more likely to attain it than they are; and finally the Dreamless Dead, who say neither they nor most middle-class Americans can achieve it materially or spiritually.
What American Dream? 2010
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Materialists will assert that desires and decisions are reducible to states of a physical system.
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And of course God is omnipresent along with being omnipotent, so it is likely that you share the presumption of universalism with Scientific Materialists.
Ambiguity Tolerance 2008
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Materialists like Dennett can be considered by their own theories to be such "zombies".
Blurring the Line 2007
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