No ontology in the history of humankind has been or is more metaphysical than materialism. Unlike all spiritual or religious ontologies ... the objective realm of materialism is, by definition, forever outside experience. It is pure abstraction. ... All the properties we attribute to reality - like solidity, palpability, concreteness - are qualities of experience and, as such, not applicable to the real world of materialism.

No ontology in the history of…