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Ah OK. I think you're splitting hairs a little bit there - I would consider those two terms (materialism and physicalism) to be interchangeable; the basic idea
by danparsonson 5y ago
Ah OK. I think you're splitting hairs a little bit there - I would consider those two terms (materialism and physicalism) to be interchangeable; the basic idea is the same but one is a refinement of the other using modern knowledge. You could say physicalism is materialism v2 :-)
As for emergentism... that's materialism v3, so (in my head at least) these are all different ways of saying the same thing.
- beaconstudios 5y agoyeah that's fair - the problem in my mind isn't that people are using the wrong word (who cares!), but that even though we know that matter isn't the essence of reality now, we still have many other beliefs that are dependent on that belief, that we haven't moved on from.