> one could just blindly measure anything in any way, and somehow, knowledge would be produced. Is this not what astronomers do? Sure they also have inputs fro

> one could just blindly measure anything in any way, and somehow, knowledge would be produced. Is this not what astronomers do? Sure they also have inputs from experiments made on Earth, but the actual investigation of "the stars" is reliant solely on data analysis. What is the structure of the world if not the correlations in some measurement data?