empiricism has the potential benefit of including unconsidered factors, or exposing misleading priors. Cache locality is a great example of a possibly overlook

empiricism has the potential benefit of including unconsidered factors, or exposing misleading priors. Cache locality is a great example of a possibly overlooked confounding factor. there is no pure or complete ordering of reason, intuition or empiricism. Wisdom is knowing when each approach is the best fit, and understanding that even the best approach selection heuristic is not 100% reliable.