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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
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RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 23, 2016 at 2:19 pm
(May 23, 2016 at 1:21 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(May 23, 2016 at 12:34 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: “Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses.” - Aquinas.

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
~ Nietzsche

But Aquinas was wrong, doubly so, for his statement was not first in the senses.

The quote from Thomas of Aquinas presupposes the same first principle as Aristotle. The Schoolmen made careful distinctions between the sense impressions, abstraction, and conception. In Scholastic theology the contents of the intellect in question are concepts not the sense impressions that proceed them.
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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 2:19 pm
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by quip - May 24, 2016 at 6:23 pm

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