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Someone who believes truth is accessed through observation, empiricism, and induction.
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empiricist
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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"...what we call a rationalist. Aristotle is what we call an empiricist. All right? So these are two big words. But the rationalist is..."
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"...the rationalist. So, Descartes. And Aristotle becomes what we call the empiricist. Okay? So, please remember this conflict empiricist. All right? Plato believes in..."
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"...at this from the perspective of an academic who like an empiricist who i i don't think are you religious yourself i i'm not..."
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"...Roman Empire. It is an Anglin religion. It's driven by the empiricists and euthanasian philosophies. Okay? And Shakespeare is really the founder of this..."
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"...all right, so people like Descartes. And then there are the empiricists, okay, so people like David Hume, all right? And for most of..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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