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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
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RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 25, 2016 at 10:01 am
(May 25, 2016 at 2:13 am)robvalue Wrote: Yes, the differences come about because mathematics creates precise abstract logical systems, whereas most claims of knowledge about reality are tentative and probabilistic.

I like the qualifier "most". I can agree that knowledge claims about reality follow from a posteriori observations. So my question to you is this. Do you dispute any of the common observations about reality I previously mentioned and why?

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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Ignorant - May 20, 2016 at 5:02 am
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by quip - May 24, 2016 at 6:23 pm
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 25, 2016 at 10:01 am
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by GUBU - May 26, 2016 at 5:41 am

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