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A Priori vs Empirical Knowledge | The Song Series | Episode 5 (WiM101)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Is There a Difference Between Empiricism and Atheism?

If you're just taking a purely empirical view of reality, you're evend up stuck in this clockwork, newtonian universe that's just purely mechanical and meaningless. So for a lot of people, i think it's a form of intellectual laziness to just accept the empirical data rather an to go back to sort of like first principles and reason through to the conclusions that you may come to. It's just a lot easier, m like, an intellectual perspective to do that. And then you can derive various things using logic, which is what all the ancient philosopherst like, from plato, aristotle, everybody like this is what they spent their time on. This, this

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