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|Do you think a world without God is wrong? Do you think a world without God would decay? I am sorry to say but that isn't the case. Me and you as well are both healthily living like this. —The world moves even without a God.
– Volume 4, Life 4
Azazel is the former Governor General of the Fallen Angels and Grigori. He also previously served as a Chemistry Teacher at Kuoh Academy and as the advisor of the Occult Research Club, prior to sealing himself in the Isolation Barrier Field.
Azazel is a tall man appearing to be in his twenties with an average build, black hair, golden bangs and black goatee. He also possesses twelve jet-black feathered wings that grow out from his back. It is described by Vali to be a never ending black.
During the Summit, Azazel wore a V-neck maroon long-coat with a wide,open high-collar that opens up at the hem. The long-coat also featured two black belts around the waist and four black bands on each arm, two of the bands at the wrist and the other two near the elbow. He wore grey slacks and brown shoes.
After the events in Volume 4, he loses his left arm but replaces it with a prosthetic arm made from his Sacred Gear research.
When he served a a Chemistry teacher at Kuoh Academy, Azazel wore a knee-length dark blue blazer with a lighter blue dress shirt, a black waist coat, and a red tie. He wore faded-purple slacks and black dress shoes.
It is hard to determine Azazel's personality as he is laid-back yet serious, while also wise and insane at the same time. His character seems to reflect upon the situation at hand. Azazel loves to collect things, (shown when, after Issei introduced him to video games, he collected every console) and a research fanatic, especially on Sacred Gears. He is also shown to be pacifistic, preferring to talk his way out of troubles rather than resorting to violence. He has been shown to care deeply for his fellow Fallen Angels, Shemhazai and Baraqiel.
Azazel has also been shown to be extremely charismatic, being able to endear his Fallen Angel followers. Azazel has complicated feelings about the fact that many of his friends and acquaintances are all married and have a family. Azazel is also perverted because of his fondness for breasts, and also due to the fact that he has stated to have had hundreds of harems over the millennia. Not to mention that his stated reason for becoming a Fallen Angel all those millennia ago was lust. Even before he became a Fallen Angel, he was already a pervert as he would fantasize about touching/seeing Gabriel's breasts, the most beautiful woman in Heaven as evident when he encouraged Issei to use Dress Break on her.
Azazel is also very compassionate as he would do whatever he can to help people in need. The most prominent example is when he adopted Vali and cared for him as his own son, after learning of the immense abuse and cruelty Vali suffered by his father and grandfather.
However, there seems to be a hidden former side to Azazel as Shiva told him that he is the most sinister of the Fallen Angels, despite wanting to spread peace.
Originally an Angel from Fifth Heaven, during his time there, Azazel had once written a report on his Artificial Sacred Gear, the Blazer Shining Aura Darkness Blade, which was published by Michael during the war much to his embarrassment.
Azazel later lost his place in the Heaven after having sex with a human woman and became a Fallen Angel as punishment from God. Shortly after that, he created the Fallen Angels' organization, Grigori, and became its Governor General. During the Great War between the Three Factions, the Fallen Angels were the first to retreat due to Azazel's order after he had lost many of his subordinates. After retreating from the Great War, Azazel started to research Sacred Gears, creating Artificial Sacred Gears and other objects related to them.
He also made a contract with one of the Five Great Dragon Kings, Fafnir, during his research and created his own Artificial Sacred Gear: the Down Fall Dragon Spear.
At some point, before the series begins, Azazel found a young Vali Lucifer who had been abandoned by his parents, took him to Grigori and taught him how to properly use his powers along with his Sacred Gear while raising him.
The Red Dragon Emperor's AwakeningEdit
Azazel was briefly mentioned by Raynare in Volume 1 of the novels.
Birth of the Breast Dragon EmperorEdit
Azazel makes his first appearance in Volume 4, introducing himself to Issei. He later attended the meeting between the leaders of the three factions and was the one to propose the peace treaty. He later fought against Katerea Leviathan and was able the defeat the latter at the cost of losing his left arm. He becomes the advisor for the Occult Research Club at the end of Volume 4.
In Volume 5, he accompanies the entire Occult Research Club in their trip back to the Underworld, planning their training menu. He also visits Issei when Issei was training in the mountain with Tannin, handing Issei the lunch box made by the Rias, Akeno, and Asia, asking Issei about his feelings for Akeno and leaving after getting the answer he wants.
In Volume 6, Azazel helped in fending off the Devils of the Old Satan Faction before sensing Ophis who appeared on the spot. He challenged Ophis, who simply said that Azazel could not defeat her. The Oppai Dragon Song that he composed was later used to help Issei release his Juggernaut Drive.
The Heroic Oppai DragonEdit
In Volume 7, Azazel is shown to be busy traveling back and forth between the Underworld and human world. While being assigned as Odin's bodyguard, he asked his friend, Baraqiel, to temporarily take over. After Issei and Akeno met Odin, Rossweisse, and Baraqiel while on their date, they all went to the Hyoudou Residence, where Azazel explains the reason for Odin's visit to Japan before going to an Oppai Club with Odin. He later assisted in the initial battle against Loki and Fenrir, with Loki retreating after the Vali Team appeared, despite having the advantage. He later implanted Vritra's remaining Sacred Gears into Genshirou Saji, whom he sent to assist in the battle against Loki.
In Volume 9, Azazel accompanies the second-year students of the Kuoh Academy to Kyoto, finding out that the Kyoto's Youkai leader, Yasaka, was kidnapped by the Khaos Brigade. Azazel and the Gremory Team eventually found the culprits who kidnapped her was the Hero Faction lead by Cao Cao, telling his students to be careful of the True Longinus Cao Cao possesses. He then goes to fight one-on-one against Cao Cao, which ended in a draw as both sides did not go all-out. Azazel later told Issei he called for a "reliable backup" in the form of Sun Wukong and Yu-Long.
In Volume 10, Azazel takes Issei to meet up with some of the Gods watching Rias and Sairaorg's Rating Game, getting along with many of the Gods except for Hades, who he tells Issei to be aware of as Hades is stronger than him. After the Rating Game between Rias and Sairaorg, Azazel went to confront Indra, asking the God if he had known Cao Cao and the whereabouts of the True Longinus which Indra revealed it himself, making Azazel angry. Indra simply says back that what Hades is doing can change the maps of all the factions, making Azazel think on how much he knows. After Indra leaves, Azazel comments on Ophis' ambition that is causing the world to become Chaos. He was later seen visiting Sairaorg, talking with him until Misla's Butler came to tell them that Sairaorg's mother had awakened.
In Volume 11, Azazel sets up a meeting between Issei and Ophis. He later accompanies the Occult Research Club members to the Underworld for Issei, Akeno, and Yuuto's Mid-Class promotion test. While those three are resting after the test at the hotel, they were suddenly attacked by Cao Cao and Georg who revealed that they have Samael with them. He then equips his Artificial Sacred Gear but was easily defeated by Cao Cao who used his Medusa's eye on Azazel. After the team was defeated by Cao Cao and Georg, they are attacked by a legion of Grim Reapers sent by Hades with Azazel battling with the Ultimate-Class Grim Reaper, Pluto, one-on-one which ended abruptly by the sudden appearance of Shalba Beelzebub who kidnaps and brainwashes Leonardo, forcefully activating his Balance Breaker, creating 13 gigantic monsters that caused the Dimension Create by Georg to start crumbling. At the end of Volume 11, Azazel, with Vali and Tannin's help, opens the Dragon Gate to summon Issei but was surprised to see only the Evil Pieces returned. Realizing what it meant, he falls down to his knees while scolding Issei for being an idiot.
In Volume 12, after reporting Issei's situation to Sirzechs, he and Sirzechs went to the Realm of the Dead with Dulio Gesualdo and Slash Dog as their escorts. While initially thinking that they might have to attack Hades together, after Sirzechs reveals his "true form", Azazel was relieved to find out that Sirzechs' power is ten times more than the original Lucifer, remembering what Lord Gremory told him during their conversation about Sirzechs and Ajuka being Super Devils. After the monsters created by Annihilation Maker were destroyed, ending the crisis of the Underworld, Azazel steps down from his post as Governor General of the Fallen Angels. At the end of Volume 12, Azazel reveals that he was given the post of Supervisor of Issei's town, which is an important alliance location, and became Grigori's Advisor of Special Technology before handing them their certificates for passing the Mid-Class promotion test.
The Legend of Oppai Dragon and his Lively CompanionsEdit
In Volume 14, Azazel attended the peace conference between the Carmilla Faction of the Vampires and the Three Factions. He decided to go to Romania with Rias and Yuuto and arrange a meeting with the Carmilla Faction.
Azazel wasn't able to secure a meeting with the leader of the Carmilla Faction in Volume 15 due to the ruckus caused by the coup d'etat in the Tepes Faction. He then decided to go to a cafe to ease his boredom and there he met the members of the Vali team and discussed the reemergence of the Evil Dragons, the Holy Grail, and Euclid Lucifuge.
In Volume 16, Azazel contacted the Occult Research Club members and told them to come to Romania since Rias and Yuuto might have been held captive in the Tepes castle. He then met them in a basement on the outskirts of the Carmilla Faction territory after the Occult Research Club members, Bennia, and Loup Garou teleported via a magic circle and made their way to Tepes castle. Rias and Yuuto eventually joined the group and had a meeting with the new "King" of Tepes, Valerie Tepes. After the meeting, Azazel and the group met Rizevim Livan Lucifer and Lilith and was enraged due to the actions of Rizevim. He then participated in the attempt to stop the extraction of the Longinus, Sephiroth Graal, from Valerie and save her; fighting the enhanced Vampires and Grendel along the way. Azazel later helped in defeating the mass-produced Evil Dragons that were rampaging in the Carmilla's castle town. After returning from Romania, he participated in the meeting for the formation of D×D.
When Qlippoth attacked Heaven in Volume 18, Azazel contacted the D×D members and informed them that they have trouble sending reinforcements as the entrance to Heaven was blocked by Qlippoth. After the attack, Azazel talked to Sirzechs regarding the stolen Agreas with the latter revealing that the technology needed to create the Evil Pieces and Brave Saint cards are hidden inside the floating island and there are only 1000 sets of Evil Pieces remaining.
In the Extra Life of DX.1, in the club room, Azazel hears everyone's interests in a rematch against Riser Phenex which he then begins to set up. Days after the match, when some wonder if they would win against Seekvaira Agares in a Scramble Flag match, it immediately started getting set up.
In Volume 19, Azazel talked to Shiva for the God of Destruction to agree to act if Trihexa is ever released from the seals put on him. He then organized the fight against the exorcists that rebelled from the Church. After the fight, Vasco Strada gave a piece of the original Holy Grail to him. Azazel and the Grigori then made a pendant with the piece of the Holy Grail inside it and put it around Valerie's neck and successfully awakened her consciousness.
In Volume 20, Azazel, along with the Occult Research Club and the Sitri group, went to a dimension owned by Ajuka Beelzebub. After hearing the explanations given by Ajuka revolving the corruption that was prevalent in the Rating Games, Azazel asked Ajuka about the rumors he heard that the Maou has tracked down the locations of the two remaining Longinus, Telos Karma and Innovate Clear. He also asked if the dimension they are currently in is connected to the Longinus. Ajuka replied that the dimension they are in is a product of his. The Maou continued that even for a person like Azazel who is knowledgeable about Sacred Gears will be unable to capture the two mentioned Longinus as they are outside the laws of this world. The group then returned to Kuoh Town after a report came in that Ophis was attacked by Evil Dragons and Issei's parents were taken, hostage. The D×D team then prepared to, for the first time, be on the offensive against Qlippoth as Vali's team finally located Agreas' location.When they arrived in Agreas, Azazel went on his own towards the power chamber of Agreas to try taking control of the floating city. Even though he was able to evade all the traps laid down in the path towards the power chamber, Azazel was not able to enter as guarding the door was Lilith. Azazel was wary of fighting against her as he knows Lilith's power and instead tried to bribe her of letting him in by giving her a candy. Lilith really wanted the candy that Azazel has but she still did not let him through. Seeing that it is a lost cause, Azazel gave up and gave the candy to Lilith. While trying to think of another way to get inside the power chamber, a heavily injured Rizevim appeared from the corridor. Azazel surmised that it must either be Issei or Vali who inflicted that damage on him. After Azazel ridiculed Rizevim of his current state, the two legendary Evil Dragons Apophis and Aži Dahāka appeared through the Dragon Gate. The two of them further ridiculed Rizevim and told them their own plans of attacking the other world. Azazel asked Apophis if it would be possible for them to give back the Holy Grail which Apophis refused as they still need it. After the two Dragons left, Vali appeared in and confronted his grandfather. Rizevim tried to weasel his way out but to no avail. Azazel explained that the reason for his death was him pushing his opponents too far. After Rizevim died, Azazel ventured towards the center of the power chamber. There he saw the sleeping Trihexa. When Azazel tried to stop the whole operation, it was revealed that Rizevim had a backup plan in case of his death in store. Rizevim's soul was used as the final power source to aid in Trihexa's awakening. Azazel then witnessed Trihexa's complete awakening together with Apophis and Azi Dahaka's declaration of war.
In Volume 21, Seeing the damage caused by Trihexa and Qlippoth just days after the Imperial Beast's unsealing, Azazel immediately formulated a plan to counter 666. Azazel later appeared in the Northern Europe, bidding farewell to Vali, the Vali Team, Tobio and Lavinia as he along with the leaders of the many factions implement Azazel's plan of sealing themselves with 666 inside the Isolation Barrier Field to contain the damage and fight the beast[1].
Powers & AbilitiesEdit
Immense Strength: Azazel possesses a great amount of strength, putting him on par with a Satan-Class Devil and his former fellow angel Michael, as well as his fellow Grigori leaders Shemhazai, Baraqiel, and Kokabiel, exemplified in the second season when he fought against Katerea Leviathan, an Ultimate-Class Devil, and the Ultimate-Class Grim Reaper Pluto in Volume 11. Azazel also displays immense physical strength as he has destroyed a wall with his fist.
Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Azazel is an extremely skilled fighter and, as the former leader of the Grigori, he has centuries worth of combat experience since the time of the Great War. He is more than capable of fighting off the Old Satan Faction, an Ultimate Class Devil or a Grim Reaper with minimal effort, as seen when he fought Katerea Leviathan and When combined with his Down Fall Dragon Another Armor, Azazel skills allow him to fight on par with Ultimate Class Grim Reaper Pluto.
Master Spearman: Azazel has shown great expertise in the use of spears of light. He usually wields spears, rather than swords or bows. With the artificial Sacred Gear Downfall Dragon Spear, Azazel could fight on equal level with Cao Cao, a master warrior wielding the True Longinus which is the most powerful of Longinus Class Sacred Gears.
Immense Light-Based Weapons: Azazel is very skilled and powerful in using his light-based powers. Unlike most other Fallen Angels, who can only create one light spear at a time, Azazel has mastery over his power of light as he powerful enough to generate countless light spears and shoot them like arrows without showing any signs of exhaustion. Azazel can create countless spears of lights in the sky, making them rain down on his opponents and he can also create a gigantic spear of light that can change its form into many arrows of light.
Immense Durability: Azazel showed no reaction at all when he had to cut off his left arm after it was entangled by Katarea Leviathan's self-destruct spell, thus demonstrating a high pain tolerance. He was even able to take a surprise attack from Vali Lucifer and emerge relatively unharmed during the latter's betrayal during the interrupted conference.
Immense Speed: Azazel is capable of moving at God-like speed. It is shown he was able to appear behind his opponents without them noticing.
Master Magician: Azazel has considerable knowledge and is a master of using various magics and spells, exemplified by his creation of a strong barrier that prevented the Khaos Brigade from entering the Three Factions territory. Additionally, he can perform summoning magic, transport magic, defense Magic,fallen angel magic, and dragon gate magic circles with ease. Azazel can also force students of Kuoh Academy sleep while casting barriers over the girls.
- Hypnotism: Azazel is mentioned to have taught Sirzechs how to do the Hypnotism spell on Grayfia so that she couldn't come along to fight Trihexa.
Memory Alteration: He also has the ability to manipulate the memories of people, such as when he erased all knowledge of his creation of three hundred duplicates of Issei using the students of Kuoh Academy in Volume 8, through a device created by the Grigori.
Master Tactician: Azazel is noted as being an expert battle tactician, as he knows and studies his opponents' abilities and weaknesses before fighting them, as seen when he acts as the battle tactician of the Norse, Greek, and Hindu factions when the Old Satan Faction attacks the Underworld, who'd been set up by Diodora and the last two descendants of the original Satans, Shalba Beelzebub, and Creuserey Asmodeus. After the formation of the D×D, aside from being the adviser of special technology, he acts as the strategist and the tactician commander of the team.
Master Inventor: He is known by all characters in the series as a man that likes to investigate, study, and invent mythical things, particularly Sacred Gears, as he created the Down Fall Dragon Spear and a number of other artificial sacred gears on his own.
Skillful Adviser: Azazel is a very wise man that is intelligent enough to teach and train others. He occasionally teaches the members of the Occult Research Club, and others, how they can use their powers and handle their enemies properly.
Keen Intellect: He is known as a man with an impressive intelligence, memory, and knowledge of all of time, as he knows most all of the mythical objects all over the world, and the other various mythologies' secrets and histories.
Stealth Expert: Azazel is very skilled of hiding his presence, something even Rias and Yuuto was unable to detect.
Flight: Being a Fallen Angel, Azazel can fly using his wings.
Having founded the Grigori organization that has done various research on Sacred Gears, Azazel has developed a number of inventions. The notable ones are below:
- Down Fall Dragon Spear: An Artificial Sacred Gear that has one of the Five Dragon Kings, Fafnir, sealed inside of it after he made a pact with him. It has the appearance of a golden short spear which has a purple ball at its end.
- Down Fall Dragon Another Armor: Balance Breaker of Down Fall Dragon Spear, which gives Azazel a Golden Dragon Armor which he made based on Vali's Scale Mail. It increases the attack and defense of Azazel and summons a two-pronged Spear of Light.
- Mechanical Arm: An all-purpose prosthetic arm that can be loaded with light power-style laser beams and tiny missiles. It can also fly on its own.
- Sacred Gear Scanner: A scanner that can tell the type, abilities, and weakness of a Sacred Gear. One was given to Gasper prior to the Hero Faction's small-scale assaults.
- Mini Robot: A mini-robot that was created to help Gasper in his training to control his Sacred Gear.
- Blazer Shining Aura Darkness Blade: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of a sword with a mixture of light and darkness with high destructive powers.
- Blazer Shining Aura Darkness Samurai Sword: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of a katana sword. Like the original, it possesses the same destructive powers as well as the ability to cut down spirits without physical forms. It was later given to Tomoe Meguri.
- Blazer Shining Aura Darkness Blade - Kitchen Knife Form: An Artificial Sacred Gear that takes the form of an ordinary kitchen knife that releases a slight golden aura. It can basically cut almost anything including evil spirits. It is later confiscated by Grigori.
- Gender-Swap Raygun: A raygun that changes the gender of a person. It is later sealed due to its inappropriate capability.
- Sports Car: A special sports car made by Azazel. It has many weapons installed in it such as the Satellite Downfall Cannon System, and Dragon Destroy Missile. According to Azazel, due to him using the car to do various actions, even he himself doesn't know the full potential of the car.
- Doppelgänger Machine: A machine that was able to create 300 Issei doppelgängers that have their sexual desires enhanced due to a failed experiment.
- Maouga: A humanoid-type Devil-helping super robot that was created using the Fallen Angels' technology and is powered by the hatred of humans. It can use its arms as rockets.
- Gear Fight-Body Change Driver: A handgun that fires a "Body Change Beam" that can swap the souls of the humans who are closest to each other.[2]
- UFO: A flying spaceship made from the latest technology of the Fallen Angels. It had a special barrier to make it invisible to humans and could fire a beam of various effects: Issei lost his perverseness and Gasper was burnt. It was destroyed by Xenovia and Irina when they went to go capture it for the sake of returning Issei back to normal.
- Azazel Quest: Azazel Quest is an RPG game created by Azazel as a joint project with Ajuka, Sirzechs, and the technicians of the Devil's side. The game uses the Devil's technology the Game Field, to provide an adventure-type experience.
- Bracelets: Golden bracelets engraved with magical characters. An invention that assisted the fallen angelisation of Akeno.
- (To Katerea) "The more I hear the more I feel like vomiting at your goals. Valhalla!? The Earth Gods!? So you intend to snatch everything through Odin from the side. Rather than that, the person who steals my pleasure can go and disappear." (Volume 4, Life 5)
- (To Katerea) "I'll give you an arm at least." (Volume 4, Life 5)
- (To Issei) "That's why you still have some way to go. A woman's breasts are infinite. Handled correctly, they are packed full of infinite possibilities more than the Uroboros Ophis, you know? Because I was fascinated with them, I plunged into the breasts of women and fell. I don't regret it." (Volume 5, Life 2)
- ".....A Hero of the Devils and the descendants of Heroes. So which is the real Hero then?" (Volume 10, Extra Life)
- (To Issei) "Life's problems tend to sort themselves out, I don't find any point in worrying about every little thing that lies ahead." (Season 2 New, Episode 2)
- "The White One desires power while the Red One desires women, both desires are surprisingly simple and pure." (Season 2 New, Episode 12)
- Azazel's height is 188 cm. (6 feet 2 inches) according to the visual book with his data. This makes him the second-tallest male character in the series, behind Mil-tan.
- According to Azazel, the reason as to why he became a Fallen Angel is because of his interest in women's breasts.
- Azazel is a fan of Minotaur meat, comparing it to Matsusaka beef.[3]
- According to the VIP of all the factions, Azazel's greatest achievement is instructing the Sekiryuutei, who shows irregular growth, and the Hakuryuukou, who is said to be the strongest in history.
- Azazel once made a wish to Ophis for some of the Angels to fall and especially wanted Gabriel to fall. He was, however, struck down with lightning as a result.[4]
- Azazel had/has a case of chuunibyou back when he was still an angel. This led to him giving bizarre long names to his inventions such as Blazer Shining Aura Darkness Blade.[5]
- Azazel was once teleported to a very remote place as a defense mechanism when he tried to enter the Seventh Heaven to look at the Sacred Gear system.[6]
- The Azazel Cup, the official name of the Rating Game World Tournament is named in Azazel's honor. The main stadium called "Azazel Stadium" is also named in his honor and displays a large bronze statue of him at the entrance.
- Azazel created a bar named "Black Dog" which is located on the second floor of a building, two stops away from Kuoh Town. It is located near the office of the Slash/Dog Team. He is the manager but due to being sealed, he is represented by the Cadres of Grigori.


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280/276.75/150 2.25lbs lost
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My long term goal is to be under 200 by my birthday (December 12) and that'll make for an awesome Christmas!!
The other night my mom told me that I was getting my beauty back. :o
lorelei..It's been a long long road for me. I started out 1/1/2000 at 250 lbs. I lost down to 188 lbs and then my personal life kind of derailed. Well, more than derailed. Infertility treatments, building a house, living with my inlaws, seperating from my husband, ect. I fought like **** to maintain for almost a year with little gains and losses here and there. Last year, when my ex husband and I seperated, I weighed close to 200 again. Since then, I have been battling the weight on top of all of the other changes in my life. Not been easy, but am not giving up. I am up to 215 now but on my way back down. I will get there.
So, to say that it's been a long road for me, is a joke. This January, will be 3 years from when I first started out. Seems like a really long time, which it is. But I've maintained most of that time, which is a hard thing to do, as we all know.
I intend on being at goal by New Years Eve this year, hopefully by my birthday in December. 3 yrs and at least 85 lbs less. Considering all, I think I've done really well. Many times I wanted to give up, and am sure I would be alot heavier than my heaviest. But somehow, I stopped it.
My goal is to lose 5 pounds by Memorial Day observed (that's Monday, May 27th). That's three-and-a-half weeks away. I weigh 229 today, so that would put me at 224.
Good luck everyone!
I want to be under 299 by Mother's day. This should be attainable since it's only 5 lb away...IF I didn't blow it too badly yesterday at the hotdog shop! Two chili dogs, 2 ff, and a gyro later, :ink: and I'm starving myself the rest of the week!!!
Gayle :mad:
Well, the 1st half of May, I've been battling and holding on for dear life...to stay OP.
But the 2nd half of May is going to be amazing. I can feel it.
How's everyone else doing?
My "numbers" mini-goals:
Memorial Day Goal: 226.5
Birthday goal (6/14): 223.5
First day of school goal (8/6): 190
My "non scale-oriented" goals:
1. I would like to be back into a 14 by the beginning of next school year.
2. I would like to be able to walk between the aisles in my classroom without knocking books off the desk with my big ol' butt!
3. I would like to throw away all my size 8 and 9 underwear!
I feel confident I'll make my Memorial Day goal. I didn't weigh in officially last week because I had a prior committment, but I unofficially weighed at the doctor's office (minor case of pink eye - hazards of the profession - at least we haven't had a head lice epidemic!) on Monday and was 228. Yay for me! :spin:
Hello all!
I haven't posted in a while here ~ hope it is still ok to join in.
My mini goal is do be down 11 pounds ~ maybe by mid June. that would put me at 199.
I am back and feeling derermined right now ~ aches and pains in my hips and knees and feet is what is driving me. I am tired of hurting, and hope that losing this weight will help.
I began in Sept of 1999 with about 90 pounds to lose. By July of 2000 I was almost half way to my goal of 130. Then vacations and other stuff, and slowly over time, I crept back up. Sad ~ after working so hard, to have to practically start all over again.
Take care all ~ glynne
My mini goal is 289 by July 4th. The amount I weighed when I got married. One goal at a time.
That will be a total of 13 lbs.
My new mini goal will be to weigh 260 by June 29, which is my birthday.
but my REALLY huge goal is to weigh 250 by July 21st, which is my 1 yr anniversary. That is what I weighed when I got married.
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"Roy and I might be completely different, polar opposites in our personalities and things, but he's a talented fighter," explained Carwin in a recent interview with Inside MMA. "If he would get some coaches and actually listen to people he'd be even that much better."
While Carwin might respect Nelson's skill-set, the latter statement makes it clear he still has a problem with how "Big Country" approaches MMA. The personal issues between the two have provided extra fuel for Carwin in training camp who is as motivated as he's ever been for a bout.
"I'm excited to be able to fight him. There's been a lot of animosity between us and I can't wait to punch him in the face," admitted Carwin.
Carwin was also asked about his health after reports surfaced surrounding a knee injury he suffered in the gym. The 37-year old acknowledged the situation is far from ideal, referring to "partially torn ligaments and tendons" but expressed faith in his coaches' ability to get him back to 100% before he faces Nelson on December 15 at the Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale.
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William L. (Larry Bill) Gramse, 77, passed away at the hospital in Woodburn, Ore., on Jan. 30, 2012. Bill was born Oct. 2, 1934, in Hood River, Ore., to Ernest L. "Larry" Gramse and Leta Bowerman, who were pioneers in the Hood River Valley.
Bill graduated from Hood River High School in 1952. He graduated from Oregon State University with a bachelor's degree in forestry. He served in the U.S. Air Force in Korea.
When he returned he went to work for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration until he retired.
Bill married Donna Inch on Aug. 20, 1969. They had two daughters, Sarita Carrino, who lives in Springfield, Ore., and Holly Gramse, of Lake Stevens, Wash.
He is survived by his wife, Donna; daughters Holly and Sarita; his sister, Jean Gramse Gowing, of Vancouver; her daughter, Lori Buerkle, and family; and her two sons, Greg Gowing and family and Jim Gowing and family, all of Vancouver, Wash. He is also survived by cousin Mildred Goe from Odell, Ore.
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Iceland is about to make history. Again.
Nineteen years after the country elected the world's first female president, Iceland is about to appoint the world's first openly lesbian prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir.
Sigurdardottir, who is currently social affairs minister, and her partner, Jonina Leosdottir, a playwright and journalist, were joined in a civil ceremony in 2002. A former flight attendant, Sigurdardottir is one of the few politicians in the country who remains popular despite Iceland's economic crisis. She also has great hair.
In case you've been too preoccupied with the U.S. economy to notice, Iceland has been in turmoil since its banks collapsed last fall. The country's currency followed and on Monday, Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned.
Both parties of Iceland's coalition government support Sigurdardottir and expect her to be installed as interim prime minister on Saturday. She will serve until the May election. Although her tenure may be brief, her appointment is a step toward rebuilding public trust in the government.
While the press puts Sigurdardottir's sexual orientation front and center, what do Icelanders have to say about it?
Iris Erlingsdottir, an Icelandic journalist, sums up her country's attitude toward the matter. (It's a long quote, but too good to cut.)
Wait — the people of Iceland are more concerned about a leader's qualifications than her sexual orientation? What is the world coming to?
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10 Way Escape is a point and click escape game in which you are locked in a house built as a maze. That house is made of 10 rooms. You are locked in the last room and in order to escape, you need to pass through all of them. In each room there are set up many puzzles. In order to escape from a room, you need to solve all the puzzles and open the door which lead to the next room. In each room there are door which lead to another room. And this way, passing room by room, finally you will get to the last door. That door is the one which leads to exit so you will escape from the house. Good luck!


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Over recent decades there has been the fastest reduction in poverty in human history.
This unprecedented progress has been a combination of many factors including:
As a result of this progress:
However, alongside these very positive changes there remain significant challenges, and extreme poverty remains throughout much of the developing world. Approximately 1.4 billion people still live in poverty and they account for the use of just over 1 per cent of the world's resources. Whilst absolute poverty has reduced, there has been growing inequality between rich and poor in many countries and between countries. It is estimated that on current trends, 1% of the world's population will own more wealth than the other 99% by 2016. In addition, in richer OECD countries (such as countries in Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.) the richest 10% of the population earn almost nine times the income of the poorest.
In addition, there are many significant challenges such as environmental sustainability, the impact of climate change, demographic change, conflict and civil war, and the global economic situation. These influence the actions to reduce poverty.
The UN has published a progress report on the eight Millennium Development Goals that were established in 2000. It indicates that substantial progress has been made in reducing poverty, but this varies across countries and within regions. It also suggests these goals were too narrow and failed to address the root causes of poverty and overlooked gender inequality. The goals made no mention of human rights and did not specifically address economic development. A summary of the assessment of each goal is given below.
Building on this progress, the international community has set out a new framework to eradicate poverty, address inequality and tackle climate change. The Sustainable Development Goals, which replace the MDGs, were adopted by the UN in September 2015. The 17 goals set out a plan of action for the period 2015 to 2030. The goals are:
The MDGs were largely considered targets for poorer countries to achieve. Conversely, every country will be expected to work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals were also developed through wide consultation, and the resulting targets are for all member states to achieve.
Some countries feel that there are now too many goals with 169 'associated targets' that are hard to measure and assess. One of the major challenges is to systematically collect data and measure results. However, there is a sense of optimism that new technologies and new ways of thinking about development can help to achieve these targets. There is an important shift away from current funding models to a future 'beyond aid' which focuses on fighting tax avoidance, local capacity building and job creation.
The UK has talked of a 'golden thread' in which governments, private enterprise and civil society work together to create open societies and economies, end conflict and corruption, and enshrine the rule of law, free speech and property rights. Building infrastructure and persuading Western banks to finance it are strands of the thread. (The Economist, 19 September 2015).
As the largest development donor to achieving the new goals, the US has emphasised that 'the new chapter must not fall victim to the divide between developed and developing countries, nor the false choice between development and the protection of the planet'. Development was also threatened if the world did not recognise the potential of the African continent, or if it allowed wars and conflict to continue. In addition, development was threatened by climate change. It was the world's poorest people who would bear the heaviest burden from rising seas, droughts, and increasingly frequent natural disasters. (Barack Obama, UN General Assembly, 27 September 2015).
India's Prime Minister, Narenda Modi has claimed that much of India's development agenda is mirrored in the Sustainable Development Goals. 'It is not just about fulfilling the needs of the poor and upholding their dignity, nor about assuming moral responsibility for this, but realising that the very goal of a sustainable future cannot be accomplished without addressing the problem of poverty.' (The BricsPost, 26 September 2015).
John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana, stated that Ghana was an example of a country with two decades of consistent positive economic growth, adding that the last 15 years had helped to address socioeconomic inequalities and disparities in national, regional and global development. He pledged his country's support and commitment to working towards the Sustainable Development Goals and making them a reality. (UN General Assembly, 27 September 2015).
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I was very concerned about what I read in the article entitled Conventional Versus Intensive Diabetes Therapy in Children with Type 1 Diabetes. Could you please explain what is meant by "Intensive Therapy"? Is this maintaining "tight control"?
Yes. Intensified therapy usually includes 3-5 injections of insulin each day coupled with lots of blood glucose monitoring to help guide decisions about food, snacks, activity and insulin. Insulin can be delivered by pump, by needles or indwelling catheters or by pens but the goal of intensified therapy is to bring hemoglobin A1c safely as close to the normal range as possible without causing excessive or severe episodes of hypoglycemia. It's associated with 35-70% fewer long term complications in the eyes, kidneys, heart, nervous system and cardiovascular system. It's our standard treatment recommendation for all our patients who are willing to learn it, but it's more expensive and takes more dedication of the entire family.
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In the 1970s, they ran on the field naked. In 2014, they do it clothed to take a selfie.
A courageous, elusive, fleet-footed, and inebriated–one hopes–man invaded the playing area at Chase Field in Phoenix on Friday. It turns out all he wanted was a selfie with Gerardo Parra.
That's a criminal offense? The Secret Service didn't even snatch David Ortiz away for his selfie with the president.
Derek Jeter? Mike Trout? Yasiel Puig? Sure. Gerardo Parra? The right fielder bats .253 on the season–a career low–and boasts just five home runs. On the other hand, the man has an absolute cannon. Perhaps the clothed streaker really, really wished to draw attention to the overlooked aspect of defensive play. Or maybe he just wanted to draw attention to himself.
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Ron Swanson Is Unsurprisingly Great at Puzzles in This Parks and Recreation Deleted Scene
He's good.
Here's something you'll find completely unsurprising: Ron Swanson is good at puzzles. Like, really good. Here he is, up to the challenge, in a deleted scene from one of last night's episodes. (As if Ron Swanson would ever be bad at anything. Other than crying.)


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I'm not an enormous fan of people baring every detail of their lives online, but I'm about to. I'm getting so many lovely messages and I'm struggling to keep up with them all, I don't want them to stop, I just wanted to explain to as many people at one time why I might be a little quiet for a while, why I might not reply to you straight away and what happened to cause this.
On Monday I had three beautiful daughters, now I have two. My middle child, Rosie, took her own life on Monday night. She was 19.
Rosie was a passionate, moody, delightfully contradictory, caring, TV-show-binging, protective, gorgeous, awesome teenager. When she was happy, she bounced off the walls with it, spreading an infectious glee, when she wasn't, she didn't. Her devotion to her dog, Darcy was beautifully intense, she was an evangelically militant vegan and she was better at nearly everything then she thought she was. Like so many teens, like so many people, she battled to adequately communicate her real feelings, many of our conversations revolved around sarcasm, hugs that had lasted forever when she was little now had to be stolen, but I hope she knew I always loved to be with her. Hiding away to watch a terrible movie together when we both should have been doing more productive things was a guilty pleasure I'd now give anything to do with her again just once. I miss her so much, I generally only cry at particularly poignant episodes of Dr Who. That moment when K-9 got rebuilt gets me every time. This is obviously a lot worse. I'm struggling. I'm having to drink more water to fund all of the tears, but I'll get there.
So I want people to know I'm going to be busy for a while giving my full attention to the needs of my lovely wife and daughters. I've lost one of the most important people in the world to me, and so if you are expecting me to meet a deadline/reply to an email/act rationally in the next few weeks, please accept my apologies, but it's even more unlikely to happen than usual.
Rosie hated having her photo taken, I have hundreds of family photos with everyone else smiling and then Rosie with a menu or a hand covering her face, these are the last few photos I took of my baby, there's one nice one where she has baked a (vegan) cake for my 24th wedding anniversary. It was lovely, as was she.
I love you Rosebud. Hugs forever x
I love you Rosebud. Hugs forever x
Rosie Elouise Payne - 1997-2016
People keep asking me if they can do anything, just asking is more than enough. If you are reading this and feeling you want to do something......one thing you can do for me - If you are fortunate enough to have people you love, stop spending time looking at this and go tell them right now, in person if you can, connect with them, hold them, kiss them, treasure them and remind yourself that every single moment you can spend with them is irretrievably precious.
If you were wanting to send flowers or anything like that, then please instead consider a donation to Rosie's favourite charity - Homeless Hounds at http://www.homelesshounds.org.uk
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force on Thursday named 12 companies that are eligible to receive orders under a contract valued at up to $5.8 billion for computer network operations and infrastructure.
The companies are Centech Group Inc, Epsilon Systems Solutions Inc, Smartronix Inc, SMS Data Products Group Inc, Indus Corp, Technica Corp, Telos Corp, Sumaria Systems Inc, BTAS Inc, American Systems Corp, STG, Inc, and MicroTechnologies LLC.
The companies can be awarded individual orders under the Air Force's Network-Centric Solutions-2 system, which covers a wide span of equipment and services, including network management and defense, security and telephony infrastructure.
The contract runs for three years and includes four 12-month options.
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I have been reflecting on this past year and so much that has happened. I haven't kept up with my blog and the enjoyment I get from writing. It seems that so much of what has happened in my life has not been "blog material" so to speak.
I truly believe that is has been a blessing for me and so many ways to be back here in Douglas. Being with Teresa has been good for both of us and I have valued our time together.
I do miss the times with the cousins up in the valley and know that they are going out tonight. We had such wonderful times on New Year's Eve through the years. Lots of laughter and fun! I look forward to that in the future.
I also miss the dear friends that I have had for so many years. It is wonderful to get together whenever I have an opportunity when I am in the valley. However, it has been great to renew old friendships and make new ones down here!!
So as the New Year arrives, here is an Irish Blessing for those of you who read my blog:
May you have the hindsight to know where you've been
The foresight to know where you are going
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Shira Goldenberg, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and an Assistant Professor in the Simon Fraser University Faculty of Health Sciences. With the support of a prestigious Fulbright award, Dr. Goldenberg received her PhD in Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, where she specialized in global health. Her research aims to improve sexual health and access to healthcare for marginalized populations, including migrants, sex workers, and women living with HIV in Canada, Latin America, and other international settings. Read more
Dr. Goldenberg's research employs qualitative, mixed-methods, social epidemiological, spatial and community-based research approaches. She is passionate about conducting community-based research to reduce health and social inequities faced by marginalized communities. Her work is informed by advisory support and partnerships with sex work, HIV prevention, and women's organizations in the communities where she works (e.g. Vancouver, Guatemala.)
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Andrea Krüsi, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Krüsi's work focuses broadly on the criminalization of sexuality, with a particular focus on how intersecting social and structural contexts, such as laws and policies, shape the health, safety, and well-being of marginalized women. Read more
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Tara Lyons, PhD, is a Research Scientist with the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and a faculty member in the Department of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Dr. Lyons' research explores the relationships between health, gender, sexuality, and the criminalization of sex work and drug use. She is currently leading research projects on the experiences of queer women and trans persons in drug use and sex work environments using a variety of methods, including ethnography, photography, and quantitative analysis. Read more
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Sandra Ka Hon Chu, LLM, Senior Policy Analyst at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.
Thomas Kerr, PhD, Co-Director of the BC Centre for Substance Use at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of AIDS at the University of British Columbia.
Mary Kestler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia; physician with Oak Tree Clinic.
Carmen Logie, PhD, Assistant Professor Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto; Adjunct Scientist at Women's College Research Institute.
Charlotte Loppie, PhD, Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy and Director of the Aboriginal Health Research Centre at the University of Victoria.
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Deborah Money, MD, FRCSC, Director of Oak Tree Clinic at BC Women's Hospital; Executive Vice Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medicine, and the School of Population and Public Health.
Julio S. G. Montaner, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, Director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia; Endowed Chair in AIDS Research at St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia; Head of the Division of AIDS in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
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Iv recently started a philosophy course at Cirencester college. Iv made this blog to outline my current ideas, and to show how they change, as i am introduced to new ideas and theories. My blog won't just be about how my ideas are changing but they will also address paradoxes I have not been taught about, but non the less find extremely intriguing. I wish to look at animal persons to god to the fermi paradox. I hope you will read the blog and find it interesting as well as thought provoking.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
rationalism and empiricism
What is the nature of propositional knowledge, knowledge that a particular proposition about the world is true?
Knowing a particular proposition requires both that we believe it and that it be true, but it also clearly requires something more, something that distinguishes knowledge from a lucky guess. Let's call this additional element 'warrant'. A good deal of philosophical work has been invested in trying to determine the nature of this additional element.
How can we gain knowledge?
We can form true beliefs just by making some lucky guesses. How we can gain warranted beliefs is unclear. Moreover, to know the world, we must think about it, and it is not clear how we gain the concepts we use in thought or what assurance, if any, we have that the ways in which we divide up the world using our concepts correspond to divisions that actually exist.
What are the limits of our knowledge?
Some aspects of the world may be within the limits of our thought but beyond the limits of our knowledge; faced with competing descriptions of them, we cannot know which description is true. Some aspects of the world may even be beyond the limits of our thought, so that we cannot form intelligible descriptions of them, let alone know that a particular description is true.
The disagreement between rationalists and empiricists primarily concerns the second question, regarding the sources of our concepts and knowledge. In some instances, their disagreement on this topic leads them to give conflicting responses to the other questions as well. They may disagree over the nature of warrant or about the limits of our thought and knowledge. Our focus here will be on the competing rationalist and empiricist responses to the second question.
1.1 Rationalism
To be a rationalist is to adopt at least one of three claims. The Intuition/Deduction thesis concerns how we become warranted in believing propositions in a particular subject area.
The Intuition/Deduction Thesis: Some propositions in a particular subject area, S, are knowable by us by intuition alone; still others are knowable by being deduced from intuited propositions.
Intuition is a form of rational insight. Intellectually grasping a proposition, we just "see" it to be true in such a way as to form a true, warranted belief in it. Deduction is a process in which we derive conclusions from intuited premises through valid arguments, ones in which the conclusion must be true if the premises are true. We intuit, for example, that the number three is prime and that it is greater than two. We then deduce from this knowledge that there is a prime number greater than two. Intuition and deduction thus provide us with knowledge a priori, which is to say knowledge gained independently of sense experience.
We can generate different versions of the Intuition/Deduction thesis by substituting different subject areas for the variable 'S'. Some rationalists take mathematics to be knowable by intuition and deduction. Some place ethical truths in this category. Some include metaphysical claims, such as that God exists, we have free will, and our mind and body are distinct substances. The more propositions rationalists include within the range of intuition and deduction, and the more controversial the truth of those propositions, the more radical their rationalism.
Rationalists also vary the strength of their view by adjusting their understanding of warrant. Some take warranted beliefs to be beyond even the slightest doubt and claim that intuition and deduction provide beliefs of this high epistemic status. Others interpret warrant more conservatively, say as belief beyond a reasonable doubt, and claim that intuition and deduction provide beliefs of that caliber.
Still another dimension of rationalism depends on how its proponents understand the connection between intuition, on the one hand, and truth, on the other. Some take intuition to be infallible, claiming that whatever we intuit must be true. Others allow for the possibility of false intuited propositions.
The second thesis associated with rationalism is the Innate Knowledge thesis.
The Innate Knowledge Thesis: We have knowledge of some truths in a particular subject area, S, as part of our rational nature.
Like the Intuition/Deduction thesis, the Innate Knowledge thesis asserts the existence of knowledge gained a priori, independently of experience. The difference between them rests in the accompanying understanding of how this a priori knowledge is gained. The Intuition/Deduction thesis cites intuition and subsequent deductive reasoning. The Innate Knowledge thesis offers our rational nature. Our innate knowledge is not learned through either sense experience or intuition and deduction. It is just part of our nature. Experiences may trigger a process by which we bring this knowledge to consciousness, but the experiences do not provide us with the knowledge itself. It has in some way been with us all along. According to some rationalists, we gained the knowledge in an earlier existence. According to others, God provided us with it at creation. Still others say it is part of our nature through natural selection.
We get different versions of the Innate Knowledge thesis by substituting different subject areas for the variable 'S'. Once again, the more subjects included within the range of the thesis or the more controversial the claim to have knowledge in them, the more radical the form of rationalism. Stronger and weaker understandings of warrant yield stronger and weaker versions of the thesis as well..
The third important thesis of rationalism is the Innate Concept thesis.
The Innate Concept Thesis: We have some of the concepts we employ in a particular subject area, S, as part of our rational nature.
According to the Innate Concept thesis, some of our concepts are not gained from experience. They are part of our rational nature in such a way that, while sense experiences may trigger a process by which they are brought to consciousness, experience does not provide the concepts or determine the information they contain. Some claim that the Innate Concept thesis is entailed by the Innate Knowledge Thesis; a particular instance of knowledge can only be innate if the concepts that are contained in the known proposition are also innate. This is Locke's position (Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I, Chapter IV, Section 1, p. 91). Others, such as Carruthers, argue against this connection (Human Knowledge and Human Nature, pp. 53-54). The content and strength of the Innate Concept thesis varies with the concepts claimed to be innate. The more a concept seems removed from experience and the mental operations we can perform on what experience provides the more plausibly it may be claimed to be innate. Since we do not experience perfect triangles but do experience pains, our concept of the former is a more promising candidate than our concept of the latter for being innate.
The Intuition/Deduction thesis, the Innate Knowledge thesis, and the Innate Concept thesis are essential to rationalism: to be a rationalist is to adopt at least one of them. Two other closely related theses are generally adopted by rationalists, although one can certainly be a rationalist without adopting either of them. The first is that experience cannot provide what we gain from reason.
The Indispensability of Reason Thesis: The knowledge we gain in subject area, S, by intuition and deduction, as well as the ideas and instances of knowledge in S that are innate to us, could not have been gained by us through sense experience.
The second is that reason is superior to experience as a source of knowledge.
The Superiority of Reason Thesis: The knowledge we gain in subject area S by intuition and deduction or have innately is superior to any knowledge gained by sense experience.
How reason is superior needs explanation, and rationalists have offered different accounts. One view, generally associated with Descartes (Rules for the Direction of our Native Intelligence, Rules II and III, pp.1-4), is that what we know a priori is certain, beyond even the slightest doubt, while what we believe, or even know, on the basis of sense experience is at least somewhat uncertain. Another view, generally associated with Plato (Republic 479e-484c), locates the superiority of a priori knowledge in the objects known. What we know by reason alone, a Platonic form, say, is superior in an important metaphysical way, e.g. unchanging, eternal, perfect, a higher degree of being, to what are aware of through sense experience.
Most forms of rationalism involve notable commitments to other philosophical positions. One is a commitment to the denial of scepticism for at least some area of knowledge. If we claim to know some truths by intuition or deduction or to have some innate knowledge, we obviously reject scepticism with regard to those truths. Rationalism in the form of the Intuition/Deduction thesis is also committed to epistemic foundationalism, the view that we know some truths without basing our belief in them on any others and that we then use this foundational knowledge to know more truths.
1.2 Empiricism
Empiricists endorse the following claim for some subject area.
The Empiricism Thesis: We have no source of knowledge in S or for the concepts we use in S other than sense experience.
Empiricism about a particular subject rejects the corresponding version of the Intuition/Deduction thesis and Innate Knowledge thesis. Insofar as we have knowledge in the subject, our knowledge is a posteriori, dependent upon sense experience. Empiricists also deny the implication of the corresponding Innate Concept thesis that we have innate ideas in the subject area. Sense experience is our only source of ideas. They reject the corresponding version of the Superiority of Reason thesis. Since reason alone does not give us any knowledge, it certainly does not give us superior knowledge. Empiricists generally reject the Indispensability of Reason thesis, though they need not. The Empiricism thesis does not entail that we have empirical knowledge. It entails that knowledge can only be gained, if at all, by experience. Empiricists may assert, as some do for certain subjects, that the rationalists are correct to claim that experience cannot give us knowledge. The conclusion they draw from this rationalist lesson is not that we gain knowledge by indispensable reason, but that we do not know at all.
I have stated the basic claims of rationalism and empiricism so that each is relative to a particular subject area. Rationalism and empiricism, so relativized, need not conflict. We can be rationalists in mathematics or a particular area of mathematics and empiricists in all or some of the physical sciences. Rationalism and empiricism only conflict when formulated to cover the same subject. Then the debate, Rationalism vs. Empiricism, is joined. The fact that philosophers can be both rationalists and empiricists has implications for the classification schemes often employed in the history of philosophy, especially the one traditionally used to describe the Early Modern Period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries leading up to Kant. It is standard practice to group the major philosophers of this period as either rationalists or empiricists and to suggest that those under one heading share a common agenda in opposition to those under the other. Thus, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz are the Continental Rationalists in opposition to Locke, Berkeley and Hume, the British Empiricists. Such general classification schemes must be viewed with caution. The views of the individual philosophers are more subtle and complex than the simple-minded classification suggests. (See Loeb (1981) and Kenny (1986) for important discussions of this point.) Locke rejects rationalism in the form of any version of the Innate Knowledge or Innate Concept theses, but he nonetheless adopts the Intuition/Deduction thesis with regard to our knowledge of God's existence. Descartes and Locke have remarkably similar views on the nature of our ideas, even though Descartes takes many to be innate, while Locke ties them all to experience. The rationalist/empiricist classification also encourages us to expect the philosophers on each side of the divide to have common research programs in areas beyond epistemology. Thus, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz are mistakenly seen as applying a reason-centered epistemology to a common metaphysical agenda, with each trying to improve on the efforts of the one before, while Locke, Berkeley and Hume are mistakenly seen as gradually rejecting those metaphysical claims, with each consciously trying to improve on the efforts of his predecessors. In short, the labels 'rationalist' and 'empiricist,' as well as the slogan that is the title of this essay, 'Rationalism vs. Empiricism,' used carelessly can retard rather than advance our understanding.
Nonetheless, an important debate properly described as 'Rationalism vs. Empiricism' is joined whenever the claims for each view are formulated to cover the same subject. What is perhaps the most interesting form of the debate occurs when we take the relevant subject to be truths about the external world. A full-fledged rationalist with regard to our knowledge of the external world holds that some external world truths can and must be known a priori, that some of the ideas required for that knowledge are and must be innate, and that this knowledge is superior to any that experience could ever provide. The full-fledged empiricist about our knowledge of the external world replies that, when it comes to the nature of the world beyond our own minds, experience is our sole source of information. Reason might inform us of the relations among our ideas, but those ideas themselves can only be gained, and any truths about the external reality they represent can only be known, on the basis of sense experience. This debate concerning our knowledge of the external world will generally be our main focus in what follows.
so.. which side are you on? ;)
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