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Pressie
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10-05-2014 3:23 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
10-04-2014 10:02 PM

To me it seems as if that dictionary you consulted didn't use the word theory in a scientific sense.
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Pressie
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10-05-2014 3:48 AM 		Reply to: Message 4 by Tangle
10-05-2014 3:27 AM

That's how I understood it, too. The basic article on the word materialism on Wiki is more-or-less what I do and have understood about it for a long, long time. The first sentence on Wiki in connection with it reads:
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Wiki writes:
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Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are the result of material interactions.
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Now, I don't really know what exactly philosophical monism entails; only that it's philosophic.
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To me the word materialism basically is a word lots of YEC's spurn out as a swear-word every few seconds. They use it for anyone who doesn't believe in a 6-day creation a few thousand years ago...
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Pressie
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10-05-2014 8:56 AM 		Reply to: Message 6 by PaulK
10-05-2014 8:48 AM

So, the word materialism has no meaning in modern times?
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I don't believe that there's one 'substance'.
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Maybe the word "materialism" is something from an old age and not applicable today?
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Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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10-05-2014 10:42 AM 		Reply to: Message 9 by Modulous
10-05-2014 10:29 AM

Materialism, not dualism?
To me the word materialism does not mean the same as atheism, at all
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