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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
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RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 20, 2016 at 1:28 pm
"because NOT all propositions are subject to empirical validation, only some"

But not all propositions are true or count as knowledge. Name a proposition that is known to be true that is not verifiable? Then tell me how we know it's true?
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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?

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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Ignorant - May 20, 2016 at 5:02 am
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Mr.wizard - May 20, 2016 at 1:28 pm
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by quip - May 24, 2016 at 6:23 pm

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