(February 9, 2025 at 2:52 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(February 9, 2025 at 2:44 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Only in that we'd need empiricism to determine if a result is valid or not. It's pretty easy to see that certain methods consistently provide results while others don't. Unless there's been a faith-based rocket launch that I missed?
It's not hard to provide results. Determining their validity is. And what you're describing is more of a pragmatist epistemology, not an empiricist one.
If they see anything other than empiricism as "faith-based," then it makes sense to go with empiricism.
Those are not the only two choices, of course.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ratio...mpiricism/
