
Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Conceptual and the Doctrinal Side of Natural Science
If we are empiricists, we think that sense data, sensations, or what does lock call them, just ideas. Those are where our knowledge comes from and what it's based on. And in a way, those are what's clearest and most distinct. Whereas the rationalist, right, the sense stuff is what's least clear,. It's our a priori ideas that are clearest andmost distinct. But this is kind of the two big epistemological alternatives: rt and id - which assumes we're all epistemologists. If your philosophical theory does not cash out in experiential terms, if it's a theological theory, you don't even
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