When dialectical materialists talk about materiality, they mean first of all that it is not a certain concrete form of existence, whether it is a certain substance or a certain separately taken attribute of reality as, for example, space or time, but they mean a certain system of interdependent attributes that cause, create, pass one into another, that is, to some extent interdependent. The smallest system of such interdependent attributes is the body, since only the body separates one system of attributes from another, hence matter, materiality is nothing but corporeality in General. Any attribute taken apart outside the system of interrelated attributes, outside the body there is only an abstraction and nothing more, so the construction of something objectively existing outside the corporeality, outside the relationship between the bodies is only the creation of chimeras, delusion. Only in thinking the attributes of reality can exist separately, in themselves, or have some dominant role over other related attributes, therefore such absolutization of abstraction leads to the recognition of the primacy of thought forms with respect to reality, that is, to idealism.
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