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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
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What does empirics mean here? Experience and observation?

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Science can work only with naturalistic explanations; it can neither affirm nor deny other types of actors (like God) in other spheres (the moral realm, for example). Forget philosophy for a moment; the simple empirics of the past hundred years should suffice. Darwin himself was agnostic (aving lost his religious beliefs upon the tragic loss of his favorite daughter).
  

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I take it to mean 'empirical facts'. Look here. com/dictionary/empirical Clive

— Clive

  • I take it to mean 'empirical facts'.
  • Look here.
  • com/dictionary/empirical Clive
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