Quotes Tagged With :empiricism

Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these....

The empiricist assumes without any evidence or proof that his experiences somehow give him a magical....

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better,....

What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're....

Without empathy and love there is no morality, no altruism, no compassion for others. The scientific....

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things....

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural....

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs....

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such....