PHIL 110 Lecture 3: 7.3 - Moreland (Dualism Defended)
24 Nov 2020
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If theism is true, then physicalism as a worldview is false. Numbers exist and they are abstract nonphysical entities . Physicalism cannot explain the existence and nature of theories, meanings, concepts, propositions, the laws of logic, and truth itself. Universals seem to exist and they are not material [they] can be in more than one place at the same time a piece of matter cannot be in more that one place at the same time. Physicalists deny the existence of universals at the level of general worldview, because universals are not physical entities. Theism can embrace [the five] if physicalism at that level is false, then part of the reason for holding to mind-body problem physicalism is removed. For example, just because one cannot see the soul, weigh it, or say where it is, it does not follow that the soul does not exist. One cannot see, weigh, or locate numbers or values, but they still exist.
