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Would a Clarkian go to a doctor? Perhaps I am missing something central to their position, but it seems like they would not, seeing how it is all predicated on the empirical.
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What is a "Clarkian?"
| As in | Why wouldn't Gordon Clark go to a doctor? | Well, for one, he's dead! Sorry, I couldn't resist...
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| As in | Why wouldn't Gordon Clark go to a doctor? | I dunno...I'm not terribly familiar with his philosophy...only that he believed all knowledge that is true must come by way of Scripture...explicitly or validly deduced. I don't think he would have acknowledged you could gain knowledge through sensory experience.
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I suspect the Clarkian position with respects to medicine would be this (and now I am basing what I write on Clarks take on science in a christian view of men and things):
Yes, Clark would deny that empirical science can produce knowledge. However, it can produce very useful results. For example, empiricism shows that medicine Z is effective against illness X.
Does this mean that medicine Z is a cure for X? Not necessarily. Z being a cure for X is a tentative hypothesis, which could be falsified tomorrow.
Thus empirical science can be "justified" pragmatically but never rationally.
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