: CB summary of _Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_ in response to Michael Wood facebook post 

: CB summary of _Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_ in response to Michael Wood facebook post 

On Apr 24, 2013, at 5:21 PM, c b wrote: Lenin on Materialism and Empirio-Criticism -- Rey Ty - YouTube

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From: c b Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:14 PM Subject: CB summary of _Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_ in response to Michael Wood facebook post To: charles brown

Michael Wood shared a link. about an hour ago ·

Materialism and Empirio-Criticism www.marx2mao.com Sensations and Complexes of Sensations "The Discovery of the World-Elements" The Principal Co-ordination and "Naive Realism" Did Nature Exist Prior to Man? Does Man Think with the Help of the Brain? The Solipsism of Mach and Avenarius 1Unlike · · Unfollow Post · Share You, Michael Wood and Kyle Miller like this.

Charles Brown Truth derives from the correction of error.

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Charles Brown Dialectic of relative and absolute truth about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown "Materialism is the belief in the existence of objective reality" about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown Engels: practice, experimentation and industry. about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown Engels: turning things-in-themselves into things-for-us about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown Machism is Neo-Kantianism about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown Disagreeing with Mach, atoms are really existing, not aids to thought. Einstein, for whom Mach was a mentor disagreed with Mach on this philosophical point , having the same position as Lenin on it. Mach's philosophical weaknesses had led to the crisis in philosophy of physics that Lenin wrote this book to stabilize. about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown Engels: Agnostics like Kant are "shamefaced materialists". about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown For Kant , like the Machians, things-in-themselves are unknowable. For Engels and Lenin things-in-themselves are knowable through practice. The test of theory is practice (Second Thesis on Feuerbach) about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown Absolute truth is infinite and therefore unknowable by humans who are finite; however relative truths can be known in the dialectic of relative and absolute truth. about an hour ago · Like · 1

Charles Brown Dinosaurs fossils are evidence of existence of nature before man. about an hour ago · Like · 1