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I wasn't trying to imply that an empiricist would assert anything to be wholly true. Again from the same wiki article: Empiricism, often used by natural scient
by syncerr 13y ago
I wasn't trying to imply that an empiricist would assert anything to be wholly true. Again from the same wiki article:
Empiricism, often used by natural scientists, asserts that “knowledge is based on experience” and that “knowledge is tentative and probabilistic, subject to continued revision and falsification.”
- rz2k 13y agoI don't think that is what people are getting at. The precision and accuracy of an empiricist's observations can be off without violating ones faith in empiricism. However, the notion that something can happen, or that the past doesn't change, or that there are causes and effects are necessary assumptions of empiricism. Though assuming that causality is a thing seems to have worked out pretty well, you can also at least conceive a Looking Glass universe where the rules don't work the same and cause and effect are turned on their head.