Ep 158: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 1
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The Importance of Observation and Reason in the Sciences
Poppy says he is both an empiricist and a rationalist of sorts but I believe that though observation and reason each have an important role to play these roles hardly resemble those which their classical defenders attributed to them. Popper: Neither observation nor reason can be described as a source of knowledge in the sense in which they have been claimed to be sources of knowledge down to the present day. He goes on to say Kant's attitude was one of the three most important questions Bertrand Russell could ask despite being a man, so what does ignorance come from? And how do you get knowledge if we don't know where it comes from? The problem belongs to the theory of knowledge or epistemology
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