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To: Solon who wrote (27408)	6/19/2012 1:22:50 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"We have your misunderstanding conflating scientism with nihilism (which was what I accused you of doing--uh huh??)." Feeling a little smug are we? I have not conflated Nihilism with Scientism. Rather I say that the logical outcome of embracing Scientism, (which entails a hard Materialistic, Philosophical Naturalism) is Nihilism. "it should be also clear that were materialism correct, the world would be without purpose and our life without meaning. Morality, which must assume free will, and thus responsibility for immoral acts, would be a delusion." hawaii.edu "It (Nihilism) only became popularized, however, after its appearance in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons (1862) where he used “nihilism” to describe the crude scientism espoused by his character Bazarov who preaches a creed of total negation." iep.utm.edu