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    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2019

    Page created, but author did not leave any comments.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2019

    started some minimum, prodded by the discussion here

    currently it starts out like so:

    In the philosophy of science, and particularly the philosophy of physics. empiricism is the philosophical sentiment that knowledge about the observable universe does and, ultimately, can only derive from empirical observation (experiment), as opposed to from internal reflection, such as in theoretical aestheticism and/or (absolute) idealism.

    A contemporary variant of empriricism appears in discussion of the “multiverse” to the extent that this rejects the existence of a fundamental theory from which reality may be derived, and proclaims the necessity to simply observe fundamental fields and “constants of nature” as what they appear, giving up on theoretical explanation.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2019

    to fill this poor entry with a little bit of substance, I have added these lines

    A variant of empiricism due to van Fraasen 80 came to be known as constructive empiricism which (according to SEP-CE, here)

    holds that science aims at truth about observable aspects of the world, but that science does not aim at truth about unobservable aspects.

    and the following pointers:

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    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2022

    Sabine Hossenfelder, not Hosenfelder. Will now create a page.

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