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Observation is empirical. I genuinely think you’re confused about what science is. It is entirely based on empirical evidence. Broadly speaking it is one sourc

• aldoushuxley001 9y ago
  If it's entirely based on empirical evidence, then why is subject experience excluded from science?
  • AmericanChopper 9y ago
    Because rigorous scientific inquiry holds evidence to certain standards, like being measurable and repeatable for instance. Which is why fields that struggle to collect high-quality evidence, like psychology for instance (and other fields to a greater extent), are typically referred to as "soft sciences". While they follow some of the same methodology as other sciences, the evidence they collect and the measurements they make tend to be quite subjective and imprecise. Psychology is probably a decent example here, as it has come up with a few tests that are reproducible (like IQ tests), and even manages to make some predictions given large enough sets of subjects, which is the only reason it's considered any form of science at all. Philosophy at the other end of the spectrum tends to almost never make any measurable predictions at all.