That's not true tho. Not even someone with a reductive, Humean account or reason would accept that. Reason can work out consequences of hypotheses without affirming them.
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @ptcarlo and
working from first principles which you don't necessarily accept as true.. is still working from first principles.
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Replying to @TheIllegit @ptcarlo and
if you want it to be so, fine. But this is semantics; in this sense "working from first principles" doesn't require faith, after all
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @TheIllegit and
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Replying to @LueYee @TheIllegit and
perhaps I should have been slightly more brusque: "but this is a fallacy of equivocation..."
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