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zms11235 t1_jduaec2 wrote

Reply to comment by WrongAspects in Scientism Schmientism! Why There Are No Other Ways of Knowing Apart from Science (Broadly Construed) by CartesianClosedCat

Yes, reason, which is the precondition for science itself.

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WrongAspects t1_jdubcsj wrote

How do you gain knowledge with reason alone?

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zms11235 t1_je386qo wrote

Reason is the precondition for knowledge. The real question is, how do you get knowledge without reason? It's not possible.

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WrongAspects t1_je3tews wrote

That doesn’t answer my question. How do you gain knowledge by using only reason?

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zms11235 t1_je428ez wrote

By reasoning about ideas. Mathematics is a great example—you can gain knowledge with nothing more than first principles and numbers.

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WrongAspects t1_je493dj wrote

So you can gain mathematical knowledge using only reason. Ok.

Anything else?

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