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'Conservatism: A Rediscovery'

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The Empiricist Way of Reasoning

I think there are two different er ways of thinking about a law. There's a rationalist way of thinking about natural law, and there's an empiricist way of natural law. Therationalist says that the natural law itself does not vary,. And therefore the sions can simply stand in a fixed way throughout all all eternity. An empiricist is extremely sceptical about our capacity toto reach any kind of final conclusion about the content of those laws. You know, we like reason as much as anybody else does. We we do our best to use reason in order to reach the best possible conclusions. But i think that conservativesm are more humble and more sceptical about the

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