What is wrong with empiricism?

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Mon Jan 4 10:50:24 PST 1999


At 11:17 03/01/99 +0000, you wrote:
>In message <3.0.2.32.19990103084312.00fc10f4 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris
>Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes


>>Going back to Jim H's original post, I do not doubt that logical
>>positivists were intelligent enough to allow verbally for the limits of
>>observable reality, but the philosophical enemy is surely better defined as
>>empricism.
>
>What's wrong with empiricism?
>--
>Jim heartfield

Getting empirical data is fine, but confining an understanding of reality only to what is suggested by empirical data is empiricism. Mao's epistemological essay "On Practice" explains the perspective, with the help of diligent references to Lenin.

Chris Burford

London



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