Manifest Truth Is the Root of All Tyranny

A famous empiricist was Francis Bacon An Englishman who figured out that observation had a key role to play in coming to understand the world. Popper: "Bacon thought that you could just see the facts of reality You got kind of that wrong" And simultaneously over in Europe the rationalists chief among them that Popper talks about is René Descartes and what he called 'pure reason' In both cases we are fallible We need these things but we're still fallible and we can still generate knowledge Although that is going to be error prone. But only through our observations and deployment of reason that we can continue to correct errors and make progress.