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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
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RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 20, 2016 at 4:46 pm (This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 4:47 pm by Ignorant.)
(May 20, 2016 at 4:40 pm)Faith No More Wrote: ...The only time I ever hear anyone argue against empiricism is if that person has made conclusions that cannot be validated empirically.  Why is that?

I have no idea. You'll have to ask someone who is arguing against empiricism.

Thanks for your other thoughts. They bring up a new sort of validation, "functionalism". Some might call it pragmatism. Do you think that is included in the idea of empirical validation, or is it some other sort of validation?
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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Ignorant - May 20, 2016 at 5:02 am
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Ignorant - May 20, 2016 at 4:46 pm
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by quip - May 24, 2016 at 6:23 pm

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