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…