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Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
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RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology?
May 26, 2016 at 8:46 am
(May 26, 2016 at 5:41 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Because it is an axiom, not an argument.
Technically, it is not an axiom because the counterfactual (not all propositions must be empirically verified) could be true. As an first principle it is self-refuting. It's actually an initial premise. While it serves as a good guide for doing natural science, it is worthless for establishing metaphysical claims such at the nature of being-as-such.
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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 GUBU - May 26, 2016 at 5:41 am
RE: Self-Validating Empirical Epistemology? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 26, 2016 at 8:46 am

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