David Nyman gave a much more rigorous definition of primitive materialism in another thread (he calls it "primordial").
ISTM that what is supposed to be "primordial" about a specific set of entities and their relations is precisely that they *exclusively* underlie (or more correctly, comprise) everything that is "really real". So the hierarchical structure of everything we observe thereafter - be it physical, chemical, biological, physiological, etc. - would be deemed to be underpinned, exclusively and exhaustively, by such a primordial substratum. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
