[MD] Empirical and Historical

[craigerb at comcast.net]

>From the historical point of view: Carbon (billions of years ago) 
Idea of the helicopter (16 th century) Idea of carbon (19 th century) Helicopter (20 th century) 


Let’s say the historical point of view itself is an idea, so it’s 
somewhere in the above sequence.   But this gives us no reason 
to reverse the priority of carbon & the idea of carbon. 


[Xacto] 

> the idea of anything coming before experience 
> is, in fact,  an idea. 



Let’s say the historical point of view itself is an idea, so it’s 
somewhere in the above sequence.   But this gives us no reason 
to reverse the priority of carbon & the idea of carbon. 


[Xacto] 

> the idea of anything coming before experience 
> is, in fact,  an idea. 





So the idea of experience comes before experience? 

Craig