(June 16, 2014 at 7:02 am)fr0d0 Wrote: 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.
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.
Empiricism is the opposite of rationalism.
By rationalism we know thorough knowledge. Through empiricism we know through experience.
A balanced and thorough view uses both.
Please provide examples to support your point. This is just rhetoric talk at this point.
