04-01-2011, 06:39 PM
(04-01-2011, 05:38 PM)BlueTiki Wrote:(04-01-2011, 04:36 PM)rothschild Wrote:(04-01-2011, 07:59 AM)BlueTiki Wrote:(04-01-2011, 01:48 AM)rothschild Wrote: Does everything observed necessarily constitute empirical data?
Is this a rhetorical question or an explanation couched in your adaptation of the Socratic Method?
Clarification by examples, please.
Answer the question with a yes or no and I'll provide examples if necessary.
Sorry . . . I quit caring about your opinion when you dodged my legitimate requests for clarification of your musings.
You have nothing I either want or need.
For the record, my question is rhetorical in the sense that the answer is patently obvious to anyone who isn't a fuckwit -- which apparently you are.
When observation of a particular thing remains constant irrespective of who is observing, it can then be said to be empirical; in those cases where observation deviates due to subjectivity, however, it is not empirical.
You're welcome.