[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[David Thomas]

Bo,

> Isn't 
> empiricism the claim that the source of everything is the senses,
> which is SOM's objective-materialist camp in contrast to thinking as
> the source which is SOM's subjective-idealist camp?

No what the SOM camp says is that your senses delude you and your thinking
is muddled and only abstract reasoning using the S/O premise is the source
of the most valuable information,truth. Empiricism makes no claims about
sensing or thinking other than they happen and from this happening is all
knowledge formed. Just how this happens and the conclusions reached are not
part of the empirical premise. Our experience indicates that overtime
"concepts of thought" develop in the mind to help order experience. Some may
be inventions of the mind, but most often these are not conscience decisions
but adoptions based on similar experience and knowledge shared within social
groups.

Dave