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A comment on Daniel Dennett (1942-2024). Parent comment

Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) by harwoodjp on Saturday April 20, 2024 @01:02PM (#40098749)
The point is that naive (vulgar) empiricism is untenable because to perform and evaluate scientific practices you inevitably invoke premises that are rational or pragmatic, not empirical.
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Re:Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) by lisper on Saturday April 20, 2024 @01:27PM (#40099001)
No, that's not true. If you want to dispute that, give me an example of a necessary premise (i.e. one that is "inevitably invoked") that you think cannot be justified by empiricism.
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