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Bradford: Empiricism is metaphysical. dp: Another important point, since it helps us recognize that some metaphysical areas we accept without question in our daily lives.
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Empiricism is not universally applauded as a philosophy.
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Empiricism is not universally applauded as a philosophy.
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Empiricism is just one data point in the effort to understand and embrace that depth.
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Empiricism is critical to understanding, experiencing, and defining the world, but I differe from logical positivism in that if you place the basis of reality SOLELY on what can be empirically experienced, you’re discounting things with a direct effect on human experience that aren’t sense-based, such as thought or emotion or dreams, or discounting things that exist but with an incredibly miniscule or non-effective empirical effect, like neutrinos or gamma radiation.
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I use the term "Empiricism" to describe these efforts.
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This reminded me of an excellent article by Prof. Ted Pedersen in Computational Linguistics titled ‘Empiricism Is Not a Matter of Faith’ (warning: PDF).
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Empiricism actually leaves some small openings which ID exploits to pretend to be marginally scientific.
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November 11th, 2009 at 2: 27 pm dp: Empiricism actually leaves some small openings which ID exploits to pretend to be marginally scientific.
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“Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is critical reading. myglesias says:
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