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WrongAspects t1_je3tews wrote

Reply to comment by zms11235 in Scientism Schmientism! Why There Are No Other Ways of Knowing Apart from Science (Broadly Construed) by CartesianClosedCat

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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