RE: A Lesson in the Practicality of Philosophy I Learned Today
October 21, 2014 at 5:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2014 at 5:49 pm by Mudhammam.)
(October 21, 2014 at 4:46 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Seems circular. Can you prove a proposition that science is the only reliable method for confirming objective knowledge by using scientific methods?Your question is equivalent in sensibility to asking if "one can prove a proposition that light is the only reliable method for illumination by using light?" By objective knowledge I take you to mean conception of the real objects that exist in perception, and by scientific method, the careful examination of those objects and their relation to other objects as well as the subject.
So, considering our alternatives, yes.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
