system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Just learned about materialism and wanted to know if materialists can believe in things like electrons because we are not able to see electrons?
gpt
Materialism doesn't, at least in the first place, really have anything to with whether things are observable, so there's not any particular problem here. Materialism is just the view that every state that exists is, in some significant sense that needs to be specified, a material state. What this means can be questioned, but generally it means the sort of things described by the theories of physics. So electrons, at least at first glance, seem to be exactly the sorts of things a materialist will say exists.