seemed to imply that this "possible understanding of things" will be some "ultimate" understanding of things as metaphysics has for much of the history of philosophy purported to be.the final outcome of empiricism is some possible understanding of things — whollyrolling
you can't pretend that any of the things I've listed did not come from empirical research and development. — whollyrolling
The final outcome of empiricism is some possible understanding of things, — whollyrolling
Everything that has been determined about our surroundings has been through empiricism. Please feel free to explain what philosophy has done for humanity apart from its isolation of wealth as the epitome of knowledge. — whollyrolling
Yes, a key point that is often ignored or glossed over by empiricists is that they are basing their positivism regarding the metaphysical provenance of science on nothing more than personal preference for a mechanistic worldview; and if they rightly try to eliminate the latter, they will indeed be left with, as you say, "absolute doubt or solipsism", since there is no way to get from an empirically eliminativist paradigm to the fullness of human experience. — Janus
If by saying that I need to read things more closely, you mean you're admitting that you didn't read my commentary prior to attacking it, and I've read and written in good form, then we agree. — whollyrolling
The same questions are being asked within philosophy because philosophy is a refusal of evidence. It's defiant and nurtures socially inhospitable and ill-compassioned tendencies. — whollyrolling
I have never said that experience is any kind of magic ingredient, and I have never said that science is based on individual experience. — whollyrolling
The same questions aren't being asked within empiricism. — whollyrolling
Definition of empiricism
1a : a former school of medical practice founded on experience without the aid of science or theory
2a : the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciences
b : a tenet arrived at empirically
3 : a theory that all knowledge originates in experience
↪Merkwurdichliebe
You are humiliating yourself. — whollyrolling
We are not born a blank slate though, obviously. — whollyrolling
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