Monday, May 10, 2004
How We Know What We Know--Part I:
Why is ewe pronounced "yoo," and not "e-wee"?
Primary conclusion from On Certainty: if you are a true scientific positivist, and you base all of your knowledge claims on direct experience alone (empirical evidence)--on that which allows for empirical verification only--you cannot definitively prove that the world existed before you became aware of it. "Blogito, ergo sum."