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“There are many arguments against empiricism. I think the central ones are that sensory data are sought, not received passively; and are meaningless until interpreted; and that human knowledge consists of explanations, not summaries of data nor predictions of future data.” - David Deutsch

“Experience is indeed essential to science, but its role is different from that supposed by empiricism. It is not the source from which theories are derived. Its main use is to choose between theories that have already been guessed. That is what ‘learning from experience’ is.”

Sensory data are sought

Observations are meaningless until interpreted

Human knowledge consists of explanations, not summaries of data or predictions of future data

There are infinitely many explanations for any observation

Making an observation