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Comment by bowsamic

8 months ago

Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth, look for necessary truth, purely rational

Wha? Empirical truth is a lesser form of truth? What are you getting at there?

  • Empirical observation is contingent, so cannot be the basis of certain knowledge.

    • Everything is contingent on empirical observation. Our rational brains are the product of pattern matching algorithms trained on empirical reality. There is no basis for rational thought that is not downstream of empiricism.