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  • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I am aware of historical materialism. I am not aware of any conflicts between it and idealism.

    Marx himself seems to have only thought of idealism as specifically the type of idealism that posits that only material stuff and mental stuff exist. I do not subscribe to any of those schools of idealist thought, and I very much do subscribe to the notion that mental stuff is dependent on material stuff, and, in that sense, the latter has a ‘primacy’ over the former. And yet, I am still an idealist and I see no conflicts between idealism and Marxism.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t remember if you were the guy who mentioned believing in platonic ideals in math or what (platonic ideals come deeply into conflict with dialectics), but it seems as if your philosophical views are highly eclectic. Maybe you should study some authors who explain dialectical materialism.

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        7 months ago

        I mean, mathematical Platonism seems to be the most popular view on ontology among mathematicians, so my views are not exactly special in that regard.

        However, I have not shared these thoughts on Hexbear before, at least as far as I can remember. Also, please, don’t call me a ‘guy’. I am not hard-against that, but would rather not be called that word or described as such.

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          7 months ago

          Ok, sorry about calling you a guy.

          Mathematical platonism is rejected in the dialectical world-view. In fact, dialectics is entirely incompatible with platonism. Dialectics by definition sees all objects are having fuzzy boundaries that change over time. In dialectics, the definition of objects is context dependent and negotiable.