thegoldphish
thegoldphish t1_irewin1 wrote
Reply to comment by CatJamarchist 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
> if you observe the lengths of 2 sides of a triangle
Tell me how to "observe the lengths of 2 sides of a triangle" without you having to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch something.
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How can one OBSERVE length without sight?
thegoldphish t1_iread9f wrote
Reply to comment by CatJamarchist 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
Tell me how to place knowledge inside your brain without you having to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch something.
thegoldphish t1_irf83ki wrote
Reply to comment by CatJamarchist 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
I get what you are saying but the point of all this was that none of what you said is ever going to be possible without using one or all of your senses to accomplish it.