Can ideas have a material origin? (Berry)
May 5th, 2007 | Published in Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Quotes, Religion, Science
How can an idea, which is not material, have a material origin? “Average” for example, is an idea which partakes of none of the physical properties of the things that are averaged. Materialism itself is an idea, just as immaterial as any other.
–Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000), 50