Originally Posted by
Darat
What materialism refers to of course changes over time, but that is indeed its strength.
That's just silly, words mean things. If your preferred ontology changes then you use a new name for it. It's what everyone else does...
Besides, having materialism be some ever moving target means that by now you have to consider asserting the existence of the universal wavefunction as materialism, that's like completely on the other side of the ontological spectrum as the standard form of materialism. No wonder you get confusions.