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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
Rationalists have always admitted that sense experience can provide some knowledge. Aside from myself...
Recall that I believe even though sense data is a necessary component, it does not provide knowledge. What provides knowledge - and practical knowledge, rather than absolute, mind you - is the logical argument which uses the data. Also note that we inherently know how to inductively reason.
In other words, is Aristotle incorrectly labelled an empiricist?
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I think anyone who would call themselves a strict empiricist or a strict rationalist have mislabeled themselves, because both fields have used elements of the other to come up with their knowledge.
And yes, the logical argument uses the data and finalizes the knowledge, but without the data, there wouldn't be anything with which to actually construct the argument in the first place. Like I said, both empirical data
and reason are necessary to create "knowledge."