(February 23, 2014 at 7:15 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(February 22, 2014 at 3:19 pm)discipulus Wrote: If empiricists hold to a proposition which states that we should only take a proposition to be true if it can be scientifically proven, then their view is self-refuting, no?
The proposition: "We should only take a proposition to be true if it can be scientifically proven", cannot be scientifically proven, and thus, fails to meet its own criteria.
An awesome post by descipulus
Except that he's wrong. The position he's describing is more properly the scientism of the logical positivists.
Wikipedia Wrote:Empiricism is a theory of knowledge which states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.(emphasis added)