Levine: Love is more than just science
As a scientist, I am, at times, guilty of aggressive empiricism — the notion that truths can only be learned (inasmuch as there are truths to be learned) through observation of the world. Anyone who claims to be finding truth any other way is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Sometimes, aggressive empiricism isn’t a problem. No one seems to care much that science claims to have the final word on how cells replicate because no one has proposed a better way of finding out than testing them and taking notes. Things get a little trickier when science claims that it knows how to heal people. But the...
Also, the claim, "the empirical method is the only method for discovering truth" is not itself empirically verifiable.