We Can Know Absolute and Foundational Truth Without Using a Scientific Method

It's possible for us to know at least some absolute and foundational truth without using scientific methods, or any methods of empirical verification. So it seems we can use language to speak the truth. I'm going to give you some other examples of these kinds of propositions that philosophers have been fascinated with down through the centuries. They're principles that can be known by rational reflection upon things given to us but they're known not by particular acts of sensory verification. Here are some examples coming to you. The principle of non-contradiction. Every event has a cause. Try to think of an event without a cause, and the mind rejects it. It just rejects it.