What is "materialists"

Usage examples of "materialists".

Scientific materialists have long sought to sublate the existence of subjective phenomena by reducing them to objective phenomena.

Some scientific materialists have misleadingly argued that the closure principle must be a universal truth because scientific research has found no evidence of any nonphysical influences in the natural world.

In this light, science, for scientific materialists, becomes an indispensable quest for intelligibility, without which the world and human existence become meaningless.

Scientific materialists are committed to the tradition of science and characteristically display considerable confidence in the authority of science and in its future progress.

Scientific materialists, in contrast, tend to hold onto their metaphysical principles with all the tenacity of religious believers.

Moreover, beginning in the late eighteenth century, scientific materialists began to speak of their scientific awakening in terms that might be used of a religious conversion.

The book was quietly closed on this embarrassing episode, and on those rare occasions when it is mentioned by scientific materialists, the moral they draw from this story is that even though scientists often make errors, even big ones, other scientists will uncover the errors and get science back on the right path to understanding nature.

In the twentieth century, however, many scientific materialists came to the conclusion, on rationalistic grounds, that neither sensory nor mental experiences exist at all.

But just such a theory is still maintained by many scientific materialists concerning the nature of subjective mental events: they are acted upon by the body, but they exert no influences on the body.

The various branches of modern science have developed on the model of physics, and scientific materialists have traditionally looked to physics for validation of their beliefs.

It seems that scientific materialists would rather ignore mental phenomena than look at them, and they would rather impair our natural introspective abilities than refine them so that they may rise to the standards to scientific inquiry.

Many scientific materialists seem to have so ignored their own firsthand experience of the mind that they fail to recognize that personal experience is not limited to the five physical senses but includes mental perception as well.

Scientific materialists commonly regard introspection as being inadequate to the task of providing reliable data that can generate anything approximating scientific consensus.

Regardless of how fundamentally dissimilar the mind is to the latest products of technology, including the modern computer, scientific materialists have long been convinced that it must be similar to some kind of ingenious, material gadget.

Even the most ardent scientific materialists acknowledge that we do not presently know enough about the intricate functioning of the brain to establish the equivalence of specific, subjective mental processes with specific, objective brain processes.