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I don't know how to reconcile my rationalist intuitions with my empiricist principles...[/quote1251337893]
Well, there's always linguistic phenomenalism.
www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ld/Philos/jmp/The...ge/Phenomenalism.htm or maybe conceptual pragmatism
plato.stanford.edu/entries/lewis-ci/#OveConPra :-P