Rationalism requires stacktraces terminating in irrefutable observation
Like the previous two commenters, I find this statement odd. I don’t fully trust my senses. I could be dreaming/hallucinating. I don’t fully trust my knowledge of my thoughts. By this definition of a rationalist, I could never be one (and maybe I’m not) because I don’t think there is such a thing as an irrefutable observation. I think there was a joke in that statement, but, unobserved by me, it took flight and now soars somewhere else.
Like the previous two commenters, I find this statement odd. I don’t fully trust my senses. I could be dreaming/hallucinating. I don’t fully trust my knowledge of my thoughts. By this definition of a rationalist, I could never be one (and maybe I’m not) because I don’t think there is such a thing as an irrefutable observation. I think there was a joke in that statement, but, unobserved by me, it took flight and now soars somewhere else.