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A Priori vs Empirical Knowledge | The Song Series | Episode 5 (WiM101)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Problem With Pure Empiricism Is That You Don't Have Grounding

In the modern world, we need to observe it ad through experimentation first, to prove it before it's real. If you are relying purely on empiricism, it's just like, there's nowhere to go. You need some axioms of economics to make sense of everything. And if you use those, you can build up to most of, i think, all of modern mathematics ind in the same way.

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