RE: Can you make a God claim?
January 10, 2015 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2015 at 3:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 10, 2015 at 12:44 pm)IATIA Wrote: And there may be no matter to test."Matter" is something we have experience with, observations of. Those observations may be "just" signals in the brain, and those signals may be in error...but since empiricism explicitly refers to observation, and not the accuracy of any particular observation.....pointing out the nature of those observations or the limitations thereof is hardly a refutation of the empiricists position.
Even if it were "just" brain waves...we'd still be testing something, and "just" brain waves does not equal "not real". If we're wrong about the details of something...that doesn't mean that whatever we were observing or experiencing has simply poofed out of existence.
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