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Absurdities of immaterialism

Chapter 7: Transcriber's Note
By Orson Pratt
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The author presents a systematic rebuttal of immaterialist claims, challenging definitions that separate mind or spirit from space and matter and arguing that truths about existence and geometry remain independent of human ideas or sacred texts. He scrutinizes the notion of an immaterial substance, contending that such a concept requires properties wholly unlike matter and that ordinary reasoning supports a material account of substance. Emphasizing clear definitions and logical analysis, the text maintains that knowledge is the perception of relations among things and asserts that immaterialism generates contradictions concerning place, properties, and the nature of existence.

R. James, Printer, 39, South Castle Street, Liverpool.

Transcriber's Note

This ebook aims to reproduce the 1849 Liverpool edition. Signature Books very kindly gave permission for the Mormon Texts Project to use the text of "Absurdities of Immaterialism" they originally published in "The Essential Orson Pratt" (as made available on their website) as a basis for this work. This text was compared to scans of the pamphlet that Google has helpfully made available. The end of the pamphlet, which was not in the Signature Books text, was produced based off the Google scans, and the rest of the text was carefully compared to the scans and in a few cases edited to conform more closely.

Footnote citations in the original have been converted to parenthetical form to improve readability. Some unmatched quotation marks have been corrected in cases where the correct placement could be established. A few typographical errors (wont for won't, actua for actual) have been corrected.