Brad McCormick:
>True empiricism, I would argue, is transcendental phenomenology
>and hermeneutics (Husserl and Gadamer), because what is really
>experienced is experience and not "objects of experience somehow
>in-themselves apart from their being for-us".
>There should be nothing novel in this position, "of course".
Whoaaaa! A simple mind like mine needs simple definitions too. <G>
My dictionary says:
empiricism (èm-pîr´î-sîz´em) noun
1. The view that experience, especially of the
senses, is the only source of knowledge.
I suppose that's pretty close to my basic philosophy.
On top of the basics, I slather some ambiguous metaphysical
goop about not harming things.
I have spent the last 15 years of my life using "Occam's
Razor" on all of the intellectual garbage that I had
accumulated during the first 40.
A simple mind requires a lot less maintenance.
Jay
