Shots Fired in the Third War of Priors
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The First War of Priors was between the Aristotelians, who combined sensory experience with intellect, and the Platonists, who thought reality existed in abstract ideas beyond the senses. The Platonists got the upper hand, and knowledge-seeking through contemplation was the prestige choice for 1800 years.The Second War of Priors was between the British Empiricists, like Bacon and Hume, and the Continental Rationalists, like Descartes and Leibniz. The power shift to the Empirical side was the Sci
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