3 Questions For Believers (A work in progress.)

[Bob Kelso]

There's nothing wrong with empiricism. The fault lies with thinking that it alone constitutes the only method of gaining knowledge. Empiricism breaks at that point , and becomes contradictory.

Please describe the other way to gain knowledge, as well as at what point and in what way the empirical process becomes contradictory.

I, like anyone else, gain the majority of my knowledge from empiricism. Empiricism is our very basic interaction with our physical world, interpreted by our brains. It's the simplest thing to prove. . It doesn't account for deduction, intuition and innate knowledge

Care to elaborate? How are you using deduction here? Deduction as I know it is the process of reaching a conclusion by reference to general laws and principles. What do you mean by intuition? The instance where something can be understood by common sense or intellect alone, with no real need for critical thinking? Please define what you mean when you use "innate knowledge".

Empiricism is the opposite of rationalism.

Do you know what these words mean? I don't think you do. Perhaps you're in your alter ego state, the infamous Trollo Baggins.

By rationalism we know thorough knowledge. Through empiricism we know through experience. A balanced and thorough view uses both.