Posted: Nov 24, 2019 12:17 am
by Spinozasgalt
While we're talking "empirical".
Scott Mayers wrote:The Church in Galileo's day acted as the authority that dismissed any logic that was not 'authorized' by the 'floor' of the Papacy itself. Galileo actually proved what was mistaken about the independence of mass to the force of gravity through a LOGICAL set of arguments, NOT the 'empirical' ones. Note that, the word, 'empirical' is literally a term respecting the 'empire', NOT the intellectual capacity of logical thinking across the population.

Anyone want to defend this point for him? Because, last I read, "empire" and "empirical" didn't share any particular etymological relationship.