Comment by reddituserperson1122 on 24/02/2025 at 14:34 UTC

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“But you can't prove a negative, and most physicalists insist that you can.”

I’m not sure why you’re focusing on physicalists. By your own logic no metaphysical proposition can be argued as none can be falsified. All we can do is list them and file them away. At which point we might as well get back to doing science which *can* be falsified. Which, as a physicalist, is fine by me.

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Comment by WorkItMakeItDoIt at 24/02/2025 at 14:39 UTC

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Great, then you and I are on the same page.

I'm focused on physicalists because all of the ones I've encountered don't argue their position while acknowledging their axioms, they simply assert that their assumptions are true, and that science proves them.  Which isn't true.