RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 23, 2016 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2016 at 1:23 pm by Angrboda.)
(May 23, 2016 at 12:34 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: “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.
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
~ Nietzsche
But Aquinas was wrong, doubly so, for his statement was not first in the senses.