/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10984530
Why would my mother be my feelings? She was an uncaring woman that birthed 4 males when she wanted only 1 daughter and manipulated my Father into eternally staying with her.
>I just turned the trick on its head, inverted it, so I am quite happy in general with how beastly I'm editing physical reality predicion patterns and pathways.

Prediction = Priority

>>9171663
>>9171265
This boils down to Rationalism vs Empiricism.
Which is a retarded debate that was settled fuckin centuries ago.

Rationalism claimed the only real truths are those we can arrive at without our senses, like mathematical logic. 2+2=4 no matter what. You do not see, smell, hear, taste, smell, or feel the concepts of "2"s, "4"s, addition, or equality.

Empiricism claimed that the only real truths are those that can be directly sensed. "Objects fall when dropped", "this object is red", "the temperature is high today", etc.

Rationalism's problem is sense information is typically required to perform rational processes.

Empiricism's problem is how do you directly sense something like a magnetic wave, or the transfer of momentum from one object to another, or infinity in calculus?


How did we solve this?

BY ADMITTING WE NEED BOTH. SO WE USE BOTH. PERIOD.

You can view rationalism vs empiricism as physics class vs physics lab, or analytical math vs discrete or numerical math.