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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
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RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 20, 2016 at 4:18 pm (This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 4:29 pm by Ignorant.)
(May 20, 2016 at 5:43 am)Ben Davis Wrote: It's very simple: we compare 'truths' that are empirically validated with one that are not then hold the results up against reality to see which remain true. Tadaaa! Empirical validation of the proposition.

Sometimes I think theists think that no-one's thought of this stuff already...

Are original questions the only sort of questions welcome on this site? If so, let me know and I won't return (I am quite sure any question I [edit: would] have has been asked before).

As to your response: What you describe does not seem like empirical validation of the original proposition. Rather, it seems like empirical validation of particular truths.

I haven't interacted with you yet on these forums. I just want to know what you think about these things. I am not presenting an argument.
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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Ignorant - May 20, 2016 at 5:02 am
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Ignorant - May 20, 2016 at 4:18 pm
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by quip - May 24, 2016 at 6:23 pm
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by GUBU - May 26, 2016 at 5:41 am

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