“Rationalism” has the baggage of having meant the idea of finding truth by pure reason, without needing to look at the world.
“Empiricism” has the baggage of having meant the idea of finding truth just by looking at the world, without applying reason to discern its inner structures.
“Bayesianism” is far too narrow.
“Baconianism” might be close enough, but too obscure.
There does not appear to be any word that means “finding the truth by reason and observation, not separate from each other, but different aspects of a single method, as described in the Sequences”, however many of the individual ideas there can be found in sources predating them.
Upvoted for introducing me to the term baconianism, even though it is a little bit off. We could do what every academic and their dog does when they find something they almost agree with and slap a ‘neo-’ in front of it to create e.g neobaconianism. But if we are gonna invent new terms anyway we might as well go with aspirationalist.
“Rationalism” has the baggage of having meant the idea of finding truth by pure reason, without needing to look at the world.
“Empiricism” has the baggage of having meant the idea of finding truth just by looking at the world, without applying reason to discern its inner structures.
“Bayesianism” is far too narrow.
“Baconianism” might be close enough, but too obscure.
There does not appear to be any word that means “finding the truth by reason and observation, not separate from each other, but different aspects of a single method, as described in the Sequences”, however many of the individual ideas there can be found in sources predating them.
Upvoted for introducing me to the term baconianism, even though it is a little bit off. We could do what every academic and their dog does when they find something they almost agree with and slap a ‘neo-’ in front of it to create e.g neobaconianism. But if we are gonna invent new terms anyway we might as well go with aspirationalist.