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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
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RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 20, 2016 at 5:43 pm
(May 20, 2016 at 4:26 pm)Ignorant Wrote:
(May 20, 2016 at 4:20 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I think we have to accept certain premises as axiomatic in order to function.

So the bold proposition in the OP is axiomatic rather than empirically verifiable?

In my view, yes.

Your mileage apparently varies?

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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 Thumpalumpacus - May 20, 2016 at 5:43 pm
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by quip - May 24, 2016 at 6:23 pm

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