Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Peter Jones writes: > > > A claim about truth as opposed to existence cannot > > support the conclusion that matter does not actually exist. > > It can if you can show that the mental does not supervene > on the physical.
I don't see how that is connected, and I don't want to claim that the mental does not supervene on the physical. > This is far from a generally accepted fact, > but there but I am not yet aware of convincing arguments > against the sort of challenge posed to the supervenience > theory by eg. Tim Maudlin - unless you reject computationalism. Materialism/physicalism is better supported than computationalism. Maudlin's arguments rest on the idea that physicalists must ignore counterfactuals. That assumption can easilly be abandoned. > Stathis Papaioannou > > _________________________________________________________________ > Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. > http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
