Can you prove that you are the person who writes checks in your name? The very idea (the assumption) that you are you is an idea held on the basis of "faith". It cannot, in the final analysis, be empirically demonstrated. Likewise, the belief in the metaphysical freedom of
Except modern philosophy teaches us that genuine knowledge of the external world is impossible to have. You are an adherent of that philosophy but you patronize theism (in your claim to have genuine knowledge of the external world) without even knowing you are doing it! This is why you are like the Cretin who said that all Cretins are liars!
Man, that is some new age hippy BS!
It is time to toss those Philosophy texts and buy some Physics texts.
We already addressed the concept of empirical evidence. Any high school graduate who mastered his Biology, Chemistry, and Physics courses knows how to observe his surroundings.
No, that is classic enlightenment philosophy of which you are apparently entirely ignorant.
That's merely a claim. You need to support it by showing how philosophy alone gives us greater understanding of the natural world. No telescopes, microscopes, colliders, calculus, etc, etc....just pure philosophy.
