(January 15, 2014 at 10:45 am)Ben Davis Wrote:(January 14, 2014 at 7:46 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: Are you saying that everything must be empirically proven in order to be true? That's a self defeating argument.Sorry but I don't get your point. I thought that the practical application of this claim is (to quote the Texan Tank) 'if you can't show it, you don't know it'. Please can you elaborate on why this is self-defeating?
I get the sense that he is saying the statement itself cannot be "empirically proven in order to be true," hence it defines a requirement that it cannot itself satisfy.