Question by mikayla_starstuff: Is reductionist materialism a metaphysical theory?
Is it provable or unprovable? I’m not saying I’m for or against, just seeing what sort of responses I get.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism
Blue316:
I think you have confused what is a theory and what is a fact. A theory is a broad explaination of a group of facts. Strictly speaking, the implications of a theory are really the only thing about it that can be tested. I was using the term a bit loosely above.
Best answer:
Answer by Toadaly
I would say that it is, as it presupposes, without rigorous proof, that induction is valid.
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It is falsifiable, though it is not provable in a rigorous sense.
I would say that it is not purely metaphysical, because it is inductively well-founded. (Though the assumption that inductive reasoning is legitimate is itself metaphysical.)
theory has to be proven…when proven it can be a fact…