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Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth, look for necessary truth, purely rational
by bowsamic 1y ago
Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth, look for necessary truth, purely rational
- adastra22 1y agoWha? Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth? What are you getting at there?
- bowsamic 1y agoEmpirical observation is contingent, so cannot be the basis of certain knowledge.
- adastra22 1y agoEverything is contingent on empirical observation. Our rational brains are the product of pattern matching algorithms trained on empirical reality. There is no basis for rational thought that is not downstream of empiricism.