Empiricism as a New Year's resolution

November 16, 2023 @ 3:25 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

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Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: "The problems started with my resolution next year to reject temporal causality."

Two earlier empiricism jokes can be found in "Learning empiricism", 4/29/2020.

For a larger dose of epistemology, without jokes, see "Rationalism vs. Empiricism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

November 16, 2023 @ 3:25 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics


3 Comments

  1. Anthony said,

    November 16, 2023 @ 11:45 am

    There's a wonderful joke about non-constructive proofs.

  2. Daniel Barkalow said,

    November 16, 2023 @ 2:43 pm

    Ever since an incident in 1985, Doc Brown hasn't been allowed to register a car unless he has causality insurance.

  3. Nat said,

    November 16, 2023 @ 9:49 pm

    Anthony,
    that sounds like Russell's paradox.

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