18 MAY 2012 by ideonexus Galileo on Empiricism
Lamenting the fact that if something philosophy asserts cannot be observed in nature, then why not abandon it?
Folksonomies: philosophy,empiricism

13 FEB 2012 by ideonexus Nothing is Known by Guess
In medicine, everything is known from examination of the dead and experiments on living animals. A bit of wisdom from 1851.
Folksonomies: empiricism,medicine

02 FEB 2012 by ideonexus Facts Need Theory to Guide Them
Without theory, we have no framework within which to contain them.
Folksonomies: empiricism,facts,theory

31 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Danger of Believing Unproven Things
Is that we fall into the habit of believing these things, the empirical knowledge we have crumbles, and we return to savagery.
Folksonomies: society,empiricism,morals

31 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Dangerous Zealot
Chesterson describes the "theorist who starts with a false theory" and sees everything as supporting it as the most dangerous enemy of human reason. Sounds like religious believers.
Folksonomies: religion,empiricism,hypothesis

30 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Philosophy Without Empiricism is Nonsense
Empirical science is the only thing capable of determining if a sentence is true.
Folksonomies: empiricism

30 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Reevaluating our Libraries
Hume argues that any work that does not contain abstract mathematical reasoning or experimental research is nothing but "sophistry and illusion."
Folksonomies: empiricism

28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Keep Your Dreams Sane
In science, conjectures must be sound and not devolve into flights of fancy.
Folksonomies: empiricism,imagination

23 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The One Piece of Dogmatism Allowed the Scientist
That a rational explanation will eventually be found.
Folksonomies: science,religion,empiricism

17 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Truth is the approximation of thought to reality
Our growth of knowledge is an "attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness."
Folksonomies: empiricism,reality