The empirical method Options

[sikdragon]

I don't like the empirical method. why? because basically it says that everything humans can't explain doesn't exist. If that isn't closed minded then I don't know what is. By using the empirical method your mind does not exist. We all know that isn't true. Every living person has a mind regardless of it's health.

[Spirited Away]

Those who do in fact use the empirical method to disprove the existance of something are indeed close minded.

Reality is based solely upon perception.

Let us play a game:

I give you a small box, how do you find out if there's anything in it?

Are you going to try to perceive/imagine that something's there? Or maybe believe that's something's in there in hope that it exists?

No, mon ami, you would do the logical thing, and shake the damn thing to check for that something's existence. Or perhaps, you would simply open the box to see for yourself.

Believe it or not, that's using the empirical method since you are using your senses and experience to deduct that when you shake the box and something moves inside of it, there is obviously something there. Are you trying to tell me that doing so makes a person close minded?