(January 17, 2022 at 2:25 pm)GrandizerII Wrote: I can give you that one can do a post hoc justification of some of those assumptions via science. But nevertheless, they are assumptions that must first be held before you get science.
And anyway, now that I think about, this is circular. It's like the Bible being used to demonstrate what God says or something.
(Nice to meet you. I like your posts.)
In response to what you say, there are plenty of perfectly logical reasons to be an empiricist. Locke and Hume made their cases. And they hold up pretty well. Sure, everything must be based on assumptions of some kind. That's true for science. That's true for any enterprise that wants to make significant statements about reality.
