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Empiricism and Commonsense
In his high empiricist phase, bertrand russell says there is no such thing as matter. He decided to go back to e what ad been rather caricatured in the nineteenth century as british empiricism. A locke starts with this premise that empirical knowledge is only probable. It's not certainit's, it's not pendent on mathematical proof. You can only know certain kinds of things. If you're drunk, short sighted, if it's foggy, you can't see so well. The senses can fool you. Next sweek, renaissance magic.