To: CarolinaGuitarman
Deductive reasoning without a fact of reality results in philosophy.
1,133 posted on
04/07/2006 7:04:17 AM PDT by
jec41
(Screaming Eagle)
To: jec41
"Deductive reasoning without a fact of reality results in philosophy."
It can still be useful. I don't agree with you that philosophy is not helpful (unless I am misreading you); epistemology is after all a part of philosophy (metaphysics, to be precise). You are correct though that without a basis in empirical observations, deduction has no way of checking itself against reality.
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