Ep. 109 - Empiricism vs Rationalism: What Do We Really Know When It Comes To Fitness?

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

We often throw around terms like “rational skepticism” or “empirical evidence” without knowing the specific definitions of what they mean beyond a general sense of them indicating some aspect of scientific thought or inquiry. What is rationalism? What is empiricism? How do we actually evaluate the evidence to make conclusions when viewed from the perspective of each? In this episode, the whole MASS crew chats on Iron Culture to discuss how we form a rational theory based on logical reasoning, and evaluate actual empirical evidence to come to conclusions. How do you evaluate the strength of a rational argument? How do you use empirical evidence and rational thought in a complementary way to answer questions? Tune in to this episode and strengthen your critical thinking skills so you aren’t simply a victim to the blowing winds of #science on social media.

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0:00.0	Eric, on occasion, we put on an episode that we just know it's going to become a pillar
0:07.3	of not only the iron culture, a community, but something that one can reflect back on to have
0:12.8	new takeaways. And that is what we're experiencing today. We have the roundtable of round
0:18.0	tables that mass boys are joining together to talk about how do we know
0:22.3	what we know and what do we know a conversation on epistemology and then the branches of
0:27.2	empiricism, rationalism, how they're not mutually exclusive as some people might think,
0:32.5	talking in a microcosm about the fitness industry, but then in general how people may
0:37.2	come to
0:37.7	conclusions, why it's important to re-examine things, and just the entire scientific process
0:42.2	to an outsider they might not be aware of.
0:45.4	So getting an inside scoop into how the mass boys work and just, you know, general
0:50.5	principles was not only fascinating.
0:52.3	I think there's nothing, there's been
0:54.8	nothing like this elsewhere that I could think of in the fitness space. No, this is a really
1:00.1	cool episode. Now, I feel really just privileged to have this conversation and be able to air
1:05.8	some of these thoughts. So we got the whole mass team. And as you know, I'm a part of many
1:10.5	cinematic universes and mass is one of them.
1:12.5	We got Dr. Mike Zerdos. We got Greg Knuckles and we got Dr. Eric Trexler on. And we got little old me.
1:18.5	And we had a discussion about how we think, how we come to conclusions, how we reformulate ideas, how we update things.
1:26.2	And ultimately how you, dear listener, can pick
1:29.1	apart arguments and come to your own conclusions and hopefully the most likely to be right
1:36.3	conclusions and get closer and closer to that over time when you see two seemingly science-based
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