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thegoldphish t1_iread9f wrote

Reply to comment by CatJamarchist in Empiricism — the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley and Hume that argued knowledge was derived only from sensory experience (against Descartes’s Rationalists) and provided the philosophical foundation for the scientific method by thelivingphilosophy

Tell me how to place knowledge inside your brain without you having to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch something.

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CatJamarchist t1_ireuejy wrote

Well, leaving something like direct brain stimulation aside.. deduction?

For exmaple, if you observe the lengths of 2 sides of a triangle, you can quite easily use a little logic and math to deduce the 'knowledge' of the third side of the triangle.

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thegoldphish t1_irewin1 wrote

> if you observe the lengths of 2 sides of a triangle

Tell me how to "observe the lengths of 2 sides of a triangle" without you having to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch something.

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How can one OBSERVE length without sight?

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CatJamarchist t1_ireynuo wrote

Oh that doesn't matter, yes you observe the first two lengths with sight, read the numbers or whatever - but the length and angles of the third length, cannot be observed, nor do they need to be observed for the knowledge about it to be understood.

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thegoldphish t1_irf83ki wrote

I get what you are saying but the point of all this was that none of what you said is ever going to be possible without using one or all of your senses to accomplish it.

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