Your question reminds me of a conversation I was having friend not long ago. It was a conversation on logic and rationality. I was saying that certain truths can be obtained by shear logic alone and, as my friend put it, “logic is an attempt to look back at nature and project forward,” and is essentially fallible and it’s truth deducing ability is only to be trusted to certain extents. I’ll write out a bit of the talk for you…
“Look,” I said, “If I were to throw a brick at that window it would not hit the window and transform into a rabbit!”
“How do you know that?” (You can see where empiricism comes into play?)
“Because it doesn’t follow logically. Not all conceivable things are possible.”
“How do you know it’s not possible?!”
“Because anything put into action (anything contingent) is acted upon by an outside source. There is an enormous series of sequential events that follow logically and necessarily.”
I then said science functions on the same principles and, at which point he said, “No, science isn’t logical,” and at the he realized what he said and the conversation ended. (Lol!)
Have you read Aristotle’s “Metaphysics?” You might enjoy it. Aristotle deals at length with the principle of “First Cause,” probably better known as “the argument of sufficient reason.” That seems to be where you’re heading, is it not? Check it out.
“Look,” I said, “If I were to throw a brick at that window it would not hit the window and transform into a rabbit!”
“How do you know that?” (You can see where empiricism comes into play?)
“Because it doesn’t follow logically. Not all conceivable things are possible.”
“How do you know it’s not possible?!”
“Because anything put into action (anything contingent) is acted upon by an outside source. There is an enormous series of sequential events that follow logically and necessarily.”
I then said science functions on the same principles and, at which point he said, “No, science isn’t logical,” and at the he realized what he said and the conversation ended. (Lol!)
Have you read Aristotle’s “Metaphysics?” You might enjoy it. Aristotle deals at length with the principle of “First Cause,” probably better known as “the argument of sufficient reason.” That seems to be where you’re heading, is it not? Check it out.
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