Eatinbeansallday t1_ir2xg2m wrote on October 4, 2022 at 10:58 PM Reply to comment by [deleted] in Empiricism — the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley and Hume that argued knowledge was derived only from sensory experience (against Descartes’s Rationalists) and provided the philosophical foundation for the scientific method by thelivingphilosophy Berkeley, Locke, and Hume all use extensive rational analysis, so I don’t think using rational analysis takes you out of the realm of empiricism Permalink Parent 2
Eatinbeansallday t1_ir2xg2m wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Empiricism — the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley and Hume that argued knowledge was derived only from sensory experience (against Descartes’s Rationalists) and provided the philosophical foundation for the scientific method by thelivingphilosophy
Berkeley, Locke, and Hume all use extensive rational analysis, so I don’t think using rational analysis takes you out of the realm of empiricism