(He was the original Herald Loomis in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" on Broadway.) Ms. Ruff and Mr. Dillahunt enact their testy relationship without sending off many sparks, even when Corbin puts the moves on Cali by suggesting that a kiss is an example of dialectical materialism — surely among the world's most underused pickup lines.
Moitessier had a very good idea of this, but throughout his voyage he had been developing an increasing disgust with the excesses of the modern world; the planned celebrations seemed to him to be yet another example of brash materialism.
Indeed, Feyerabend held that practically any version of materialism would severely undermine common-sense psychology.
For example, all forms of materialism are eliminativist about the soul; modern chemists are eliminativist about phlogiston; and modern physicists are eliminativist about the existence of luminiferous aether.
If no other qualifications are intended, it is convenient to use the word extreme and to speak, for example, of "extreme physicalist materialism"—which is probably the type most discussed among professional philosophers in English-speaking countries.
It was, I thought, the worst example of creeping Western materialism taking over the world.
The illustration of materialism generalizes to all metaphysics.
As evidence, we needn't look any further than a modern master of materialism.
I cannot pretend to prove this very general contention, but I shall try to support and illustrate it with the central example of science's 'presumptive materialism'.
Today, said the painter, Trinh Cung, it is the best example of the pragmatism and materialism that have gripped the soul of Vietnam: "Getting money, more and more, is what people want.
The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser, for example, had a major impact on my thinking.
