RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 20, 2016 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 6:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Thus, reason (or math) is on no firmer footing even -if- empiricism is taken as axiomatic or argued to -be- axiomatic. There are no absolutes, no assurances, to be found anywhere. Reason cannot reasonably support itself - it self describes the polar opposite. It too, ultimately, hinges upon practicality. It's simply a way of organizing our thoughts to achieve an effect.
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