(2021-04-18, 08:11 AM)Laird Wrote: I see what you did there.
OK, I'll leave it open for now, in the hope that something new is brought to the table, not merely a rehashing of that which has already been done to death. If nothing new eventuates, I'll reconsider.
I just think it's a bad form of censorship to close out a topic.
I mean it took years to learn the criteria was nothing more than personal satisfaction, which is where I think the debate about coherency largely ended.
At this point one can just quote prior posts in perpetuity as all the reasoned inquiries for coherency are concluded AFAICTell.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell