2855: Empiricism - Revision history

SomeoneIGuess: Safe to assume as complete

2023-11-29T16:37:22Z

Safe to assume as complete

Pie Guy: /* Explanation */ readability

2023-11-20T19:08:47Z

‎Explanation: readability

172.68.64.226: "Technically" is the correct spelling, not "tecnically".

2023-11-19T02:10:00Z

"Technically" is the correct spelling, not "tecnically".

Pie Guy: fixed link

2023-11-17T21:38:42Z

fixed link

Pie Guy: Links

2023-11-17T21:37:05Z

Links

Pie Guy: Condensed the long paragraph

2023-11-17T21:30:09Z

Condensed the long paragraph

172.69.70.150: /* Explanation */ wtf???

2023-11-17T15:06:59Z

‎Explanation: wtf???

172.69.194.115: /* Explanation */ It's considered the better writing style to spell out trivial numbers.

2023-11-17T05:10:49Z

‎Explanation: It's considered the better writing style to spell out trivial numbers.

172.70.134.223: /* Explanation */

2023-11-17T03:58:38Z

‎Explanation

Cuvtixo: He-he-he! The previous witticism must not go unnoticed, although it's not especially funny or clever. It should be translated as ¡Je-je-je!ted for Spanish speakers as Je-je-je

2023-11-16T23:20:10Z

He-he-he! The previous witticism must not go unnoticed, although it's not especially funny or clever. It should be translated as ¡Je-je-je!ted for Spanish speakers as Je-je-je

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	[[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] are discussing {{w\|New Year's resolutions}}. Cueball says that his resolution for this year was to reject empiricism. Megan asks him how that worked out for him, to which Cueball gives a dismissive response.		[[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] are discussing {{w\|New Year's resolutions}}. Cueball says that his resolution for this year was to reject empiricism. Megan asks him how that worked out for him, to which Cueball gives a dismissive response.

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 {{w|Empiricism}} is the practice of testing a hypothesis based on direct observation and testing. The joke is that, since Cueball succeeded in rejecting empiricism this year, he doesn't care or think about how it went, since doing so would be empirical.
-Technically speaking, Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as {{w|Constructivism (philosophy of education)|constructivism}} and {{w|pragmatism}} (the suggestion that knowledge is constructed by the individual through their interactions with the world, and the belief that value is determined by its success in practical application, respectively); if Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been a more direct rejection of empiricism. As stated, this is just a technicality; Randall is probably using a layman's definition of empiricism, which can reasonably be defined as "the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience."
+Technically speaking, Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as {{w|Constructivism (philosophy of education)|constructivism}} and {{w|pragmatism}} (the suggestion that knowledge is constructed by the individual through their interactions with the world, and the belief that value is determined by its success in practical application, respectively); if Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been a more direct rejection of empiricism. As stated, this is just a technicality; Randall is probably using a layman's definition of empiricism-- something like "the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience."
 In the title text, Cueball attributes past problems ("my problems started") to his future ("next year") resolution, which is to reject temporal causality. {{w|causality|Temporal causality}} is the principle in physics that the cause of an event always precedes the event. The joke is that his past/current problems are being caused by a future event, since his sense of causality is no longer time-based. This is Randall's second joke about causality in three weeks; a similar joke was published [[2848|7 comics prior]] to this one, in which a breaker box switch can turn off causality.

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 {{w|Empiricism}} is the practice of testing a hypothesis based on direct observation and testing. The joke is that, since Cueball succeeded in rejecting empiricism this year, he doesn't care or think about how it went, since doing so would be empirical.
-Tecnically speaking, Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as {{w|Constructivism (philosophy of education)|constructivism}} and {{w|pragmatism}} (the suggestion that knowledge is constructed by the individual through their interactions with the world, and the belief that value is determined by its success in practical application, respectively); if Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been a more direct rejection of empiricism. As stated, this is just a technicality; Randall is probably using a layman's definition of empiricism, which can reasonably be defined as "the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience."
+Technically speaking, Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as {{w|Constructivism (philosophy of education)|constructivism}} and {{w|pragmatism}} (the suggestion that knowledge is constructed by the individual through their interactions with the world, and the belief that value is determined by its success in practical application, respectively); if Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been a more direct rejection of empiricism. As stated, this is just a technicality; Randall is probably using a layman's definition of empiricism, which can reasonably be defined as "the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience."
 In the title text, Cueball attributes past problems ("my problems started") to his future ("next year") resolution, which is to reject temporal causality. {{w|causality|Temporal causality}} is the principle in physics that the cause of an event always precedes the event. The joke is that his past/current problems are being caused by a future event, since his sense of causality is no longer time-based. This is Randall's second joke about causality in three weeks; a similar joke was published [[2848|7 comics prior]] to this one, in which a breaker box switch can turn off causality.

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 {{w|Empiricism}} is the practice of testing a hypothesis based on direct observation and testing. The joke is that, since Cueball succeeded in rejecting empiricism this year, he doesn't care or think about how it went, since doing so would be empirical.
-Tecnically speaking, Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as {{w|constructivism}} and {{w|pragmatism}} (the suggestion that knowledge is constructed by the individual through their interactions with the world, and the belief that value is determined by its success in practical application, respectively); if Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been a more direct rejection of empiricism. As stated, this is just a technicality; Randall is probably using a layman's definition of empiricism, which can reasonably be defined as "the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience."
+Tecnically speaking, Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as {{w|Constructivism (philosophy of education)|constructivism}} and {{w|pragmatism}} (the suggestion that knowledge is constructed by the individual through their interactions with the world, and the belief that value is determined by its success in practical application, respectively); if Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been a more direct rejection of empiricism. As stated, this is just a technicality; Randall is probably using a layman's definition of empiricism, which can reasonably be defined as "the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience."
 In the title text, Cueball attributes past problems ("my problems started") to his future ("next year") resolution, which is to reject temporal causality. {{w|causality|Temporal causality}} is the principle in physics that the cause of an event always precedes the event. The joke is that his past/current problems are being caused by a future event, since his sense of causality is no longer time-based. This is Randall's second joke about causality in three weeks; a similar joke was published [[2848|7 comics prior]] to this one, in which a breaker box switch can turn off causality.

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-[[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] are discussing New Year's resolutions. Cueball says that his resolution for this year was to reject empiricism. Megan asks him how that worked out for him, to which Cueball gives a dismissive response.
+[[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] are discussing {{w|New Year's resolutions}}. Cueball says that his resolution for this year was to reject empiricism. Megan asks him how that worked out for him, to which Cueball gives a dismissive response.
 {{w|Empiricism}} is the practice of testing a hypothesis based on direct observation and testing. The joke is that, since Cueball succeeded in rejecting empiricism this year, he doesn't care or think about how it went, since doing so would be empirical.
-Tecnically speaking, Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as constructivism and pragmatism (the suggestion that knowledge is constructed by the individual through their interactions with the world, and the belief that value is determined by its success in practical application, respectively); if Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been more clearly a rejection of empiricism. As stated, this is just a technicality; Randall is probably using a more layman's definition of empiricism, which can reasonably be defined as the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience.
+Tecnically speaking, Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as {{w|constructivism}} and {{w|pragmatism}} (the suggestion that knowledge is constructed by the individual through their interactions with the world, and the belief that value is determined by its success in practical application, respectively); if Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been a more direct rejection of empiricism. As stated, this is just a technicality; Randall is probably using a layman's definition of empiricism, which can reasonably be defined as "the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience."
-In the title text, Cueball attributes past problems ("my problems started") to his future ("next year") resolution, which is to reject temporal causality. {{w|causality|Temporal causality}} is the principle in physics that the cause of an event always precedes the event. The joke is that his past/current problems are being caused by a future event, since his sense of causality is no longer time-based. This is Randall's second joke about causality in three weeks; a similar joke was published [[2848|7 comics prior]] to this one, in which a Breaker Box switch can turn off causality.
+In the title text, Cueball attributes past problems ("my problems started") to his future ("next year") resolution, which is to reject temporal causality. {{w|causality|Temporal causality}} is the principle in physics that the cause of an event always precedes the event. The joke is that his past/current problems are being caused by a future event, since his sense of causality is no longer time-based. This is Randall's second joke about causality in three weeks; a similar joke was published [[2848|7 comics prior]] to this one, in which a breaker box switch can turn off causality.
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 Randall's joke may not be as on-point as he had hoped. Cueball's response can be more accurately characterized as a rejection of empiricism alternatives such as constructivism and pragmatism. Constructivism suggests that knowledge is constructed by the individual through his or her interactions with the world. Pragmatists argue that the worth of a belief is determined by its success in practical application; if a concept works or has practical effects, it can be considered worthy. It would be fair to say that what Cueball is truly rejecting in his response is constructivism or pragmatism, not empiricism, which focuses more on experimentation and testing hypotheses. If Megan had asked, "Did that work out for you as well as you had expected?" then Cueball's response would have been more clearly a rejection of empiricism. This is just a technicality, though; Randall is probably using a more layman's definition of empiricism, which can reasonably be defined as the theory that any and all knowledge comes from sensory experience.
-In the title text, Cueball attributes past problems ("my problems started") to his future ("next year") resolution, which is to reject temporal causality. {{w|causality|Temporal causality}} is the principle in physics that the cause of an event always precedes the event. The joke is that his past/current problems are being caused by a future event, since his sense of causality is no longer time-based. This is Randall's second joke about causality in three weeks; a similar joke was published [[2848|7 comics prior]] to this one, in which a Breaker Box switch can turn off causality. It's unclear if either joke caused the other one. He-he-he!
+In the title text, Cueball attributes past problems ("my problems started") to his future ("next year") resolution, which is to reject temporal causality. {{w|causality|Temporal causality}} is the principle in physics that the cause of an event always precedes the event. The joke is that his past/current problems are being caused by a future event, since his sense of causality is no longer time-based. This is Randall's second joke about causality in three weeks; a similar joke was published [[2848|7 comics prior]] to this one, in which a Breaker Box switch can turn off causality.
 ==Transcript==