Metaphysics: objective realism assignment

According to Plato, the world of changing experience is unreal, and the Idea or Form–which does not change and which can be known only by reason–constitutes true reality (Groggier, par 2). Materialism is the theory that physical matter is the only reality and that everything, including thought, feeling, mind, and determination, explained in terms of matter ND physical phenomena. Everything that actually exists is material, or physical. Many philosophers and scientists currently utilize the terms “ material” and “ physical” interchangeably.

There are two classifications of materialists; eliminative and reductive. Reductive materialism is the view that only the material world is truly real and that all processes and realities observed in the universe are explained by reducing them down to their most basic scientific components, for example; atoms, molecules, and everything else thought to make up what we know as “ matter”. A reductive materialist views the raucous and unexpected healing of a supposedly terminal cancer patient as a random coincidence of solely biological and physiological processes in the person’s body.