RE: 3 Questions For Believers (A work in progress.)
June 17, 2014 at 8:01 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2014 at 8:21 pm by fr0d0.)
(June 17, 2014 at 7:22 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(June 17, 2014 at 7:07 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Empiricism denies rationalism.
And pure rationalism denies empiricism. What's your point?
Most of us apply a measure of both, more or less.
My point was to counter what irrational had said before me.
(June 17, 2014 at 7:13 pm)Irrational Wrote: We were discussing the more modern definition in the other thread, remember?
I had the following link posted there:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rationalism
I pretty much reject that definition. I don't see how they make the connect. They just say it's so without explanation. Do a Google search and all the links state the same thing...
Wikipedia : Empiricism is a theory which states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.
Dictionary.com : Philosophy. the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience.
Encyclopaedia Britannica : empiricism, in philosophy, the view that all concepts originate in experience
Thefreedictionary : The view that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge.
Princeton : In philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which asserts the idea that knowledge arises via sensual experience
The OED : The theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.
