John C. Wright Defines Materialism

After recently conversing with an avowed "skeptic" who refused to define either the term "physical" or the concept of the set of existences which are "non-physical, it is interesting to come across Wright's help for Materialists by defining the term for them. And he cannot resist some consequences of that definition:

"If mind arises out of matter, therefore mind is an external while matter an essential, because the matter stays the same while the mind changes. So by definition, the fundamental essence of man, his substance, cannot be mind."

There needs to a further qualification of MaterialISTS, that containing the caveat that no argument however well constructed and grounded will convince a Materialist because they are not seeking truth, they are seeking confirmation of their emotional neediness by creating faux "facts", not accepting real facts.