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A Critique on the Philosophical Foundations… T. Dehghanpour & M.M. Gorjian (133

                         Furthermore, since dialectical          while  there  is  another  option

                       materialists consider themselves          or a third way for it.
                       realists   and     others    who             For example, man emphasizes
                       believe  in  metaphysics  as              the  opposition  of  mental

                       idealists, they consider divine           structure/position in the social
                       affairs    and     metaphysical           world  and  believes  that
                       beliefs  apart  from  reality,            changing  the  position  in  the

                       whereas  this  claim  itself  is  a       social world leads to a change
                       kind  of  begging  the  question          in the mental structure, and also
                       or assuming the conclusion.               based  on  this  philosophical
                         The  world’s  monopoly  on              attitude, including Tabataba'i’s

                       matter  and  materials  requires          perspectives,  there  is  no
                       proof unless it will be a claim           contradiction  between  the
                       without reason. Despite Tabataba'i        mental  structure  and  position

                       works,  the  monopoly  of  the            in  the  social  world  and
                       world  on  matter  is  negated,           between  the  two  concepts  of
                       we  believe  in  metaphysics  in          mental  structure  and  position

                       the  realm  of  existence  and            in the social world, one is not
                       revelation, intuition, and reason         the  complete  cause  of  the
                       in the realm of epistemology.             other.

                         Boudreau, like many social                 The  question  is  whether  it
                       and  cultural  thinkers,  has             is  impossible  to  change  the
                       been captured by the dualism              attitude  and  mental  structure

                       of  rotten  rope  (Complex                of people to lead to changing
                       question  fallacy).  That  is,            the  social  position.  If  yes,  in
                       creating an unrealistic contrast          this    case,    Bourdieu  has

                       between two things, which is              committed  himself  to  a  form
                       not  a  real  contrast  between           of social determinism  despite
                       the two so that the audience is           his  desire  to  emphasize
                       limited to choose one of them,            human  freedom.  If  not,  then

                                                                 he  should  acknowledge  this
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