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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
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RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 23, 2016 at 12:34 pm
“Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses.” - Aquinas. (took me a while to find the quote). An empirical approach does not automatically exclude theological speculation. Aquinas, like Aristotle before him, based their logical demonstrations on observations of nature. If observations from nature do not count as evidence, then really nothing does, and atheist critics are just arbitrarily dismissing evidence they don't like.
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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 Neo-Scholastic - May 23, 2016 at 12:34 pm
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by quip - May 24, 2016 at 6:23 pm

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