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empiricism

Commit Hume to the Flames

January 31, 2019 by Randal

“If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: David Hume, empiricism, Enlightenment, rationalism, self-referential defeat

Atheism, Christianity, and Naive Empiricism

July 10, 2018 by Randal

The term naive empiricism refers to the view that knowledge only comes through empirical means (e.g. science). It’s called naive because this strain of empiricism lacks nuance and fails to recognize the amount of information, belief, and knowledge which is not acquired through empirical means. The most famous naive empiricists of the twentieth century were the logical positivists, but […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, empiricism, naive empiricism, skepticism

A Review of The Moral Arc Part 2: Reason as Rhetoric

July 20, 2017 by Randal

For Part 1 of this review click here. Imagine that you’re over at your friend Mike’s house for dinner when he pulls out a Monopoly box and invites you to a game. “But before we get started,” he says, “the rules are that I get $500 every time I pass go and you don’t get […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: empiricism, humanism, Michael Shermer, review, secularism, The Moral Arc, witches

‘Dawkins was Wrong.’ Come on, say it. Say it!

May 20, 2011 by Randal

For those of you who, like me, were raised on a diet of “Happy Days” back in the seventies you will remember that the Fonz could not say “I was wrong”. Whenever he was expected to he would mumble and stutter and stumble over his admission, much to the delight of the viewing audience. I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, authoritarianism, empiricism, free thought, Richard Dawkins, secularism, self-referential defeat

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