Why the World Does Not Exist

The second quite devastating problem for materialism consists in the idea that materialism itself is not material. Materialism is a theory according to which everything consists of material objects (elementary particles or whatever) without exception. If this were true, then the truth of the theory of materialism would also be a configuration of elementary particles, manifest, for example, in the form of neural states of the brain of the materialist. Certainly, for an idea to be true, it is not sufficient that it is a brain state.

materialism must recognize the existence of representations in order for it to be able to deny them at the next step. This is a contradiction.

One cannot verify the claim that the thought “Only material conditions exist” is true by inspecting and checking whether all objects (and therewith all thoughts) are material. Still, how does the materialist then know that all objects are material? If he cannot tell us this, we have no reason to follow materialism. Materialism is only a metaphysical assumption