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    Empiricist methodology is problematic because it renders all knowledge probabilistic and a posteriori, which is insufficient to account for certain scientific knowledge.

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    • 1.Under empiricism, all knowledge is derived from combinations of ideas derived from experience.
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    • 2.Some scientific knowledge, such as the fact that the sum of the angles of a Euclidean triangle is 180 degrees, is known with certainty.
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    • 3.Probabilistic, a posteriori knowledge cannot ground certain scientific knowledge.
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    The empiricists methodology is not without problems. The biggest issue is that all knowledge becomes probabilistic and a posteriori. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was one of the first to point out that the human mind has a grasp of the meta-concepts of space, time and causality that itself can never be understood as the result of a mere combination of “ideas”. What is more, these intuitions allow us to formulate scientific insights with certainty: i.e., the fact that the sum of the angles of a trian
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