Epistemological Monism

Given the limitations of empiricism that were discussed in the previous chapter, it seems logical to question the fundamental empiricist assumption that any knowledge about reality must necessarily come from experience. Nothing about reality can be known a priori; no axiomatic assumptions can be considered scientific because they are not verifiable or falsifiable by experience. Hence, according to empiricism, all a priori statements about reality are mere analytical propositions with no true content. They are tautologies that, although they may be recognised by conventions, represent nothing more than rearrangements of definitions.