... Everything that you're not permitted to try is potential shielding for a lie. The question is only: Are you allowed to explore, or not?
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Exactly. Empiricism is and always has been about conflating science with liberal politics. It's the original politicisation of science.
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It's the origin of science, so I don't think your formulation works.
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It's a purely philosophical issue. Scientific practice is compatible with the whole thing being a product of a priori reasoning.
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If science was a priori, you could still perform confirmatory tests, still make errors that lead to revision, still measure as a shortcut.
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Aristotle's.
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There are dozens of theories of the scientific method, different ones have been popular with scientists at different times.
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Lots of physicists nowadays profess to believe in Popperian falsificationism which rejects induction. Still manage to do physics.
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That's one among many definitions of what constitutes modern science. Different theories have been popular at different times.
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