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Logical Deficiencies of the Materialists
From the start, this chapter has clearly and scientifically stated
that matter is not absolute, as materialists claim, and that we can
never reach its original that exists outside. In an extremely dogmatic
manner, materialists resist this evident reality which destroys their
philosophy, and bring forward baseless counterclaims to refute it.
George Politzer, for example, an ardent Marxist and one of the
twentieth century's biggest advocates of the materialist philosophy,
gave the "bus example" supposedly as an important evidence on this
subject. According to Politzer, even those philosophers who espouse
the fact that we merely deal with the copy of matter in our brains
run away when they see a bus about to run them over. 8
Samuel Johnson, another famous materialist, was told that one
can never have direct experience of the original matter, and tried to
deny this reality by giving one of them a kick. 9
There are similar examples in the books of famous materialists
such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, and others along with impetuous sen-
tences such as, "You understand the real nature of matter when you
are slapped in the face."
The point where materialists are mistaken is that they think the
concept of "perception" only applies to the sense of sight. In fact, all
sensations, such as touch, contact, hardness, pain, heat, cold and
wetness also form in the human brain, in precisely the same way
that visual images are formed. For instance, someone who feels the
cold metal of the door as he gets off a bus, actually "feels the cold
metal" in his brain. This is a clear and well-known truth. As we have
already seen, the sense of touch forms in a particular section of the
brain, through nerve signals from the fingertips, for instance. It is
not your fingers that do the feeling. People accept this because it has