Posted by Kygolas on March 11, 2000 at 07:23:50:
In Reply to: Empirically derived? posted by Scientist on March 11, 2000 at 05:46:00:
> where are the measures of central tendency?
> variations?
> standard deviations?
> graph of distributions?
> Pearson's r?
> Chi squared analysis?
> t-test?
> z-scores?
>
> Come on man, get with the program!
Hey, I'm a philosophy student, empirically derived is just another way to say uncertain/not provable etc. as everything derived from experience could be wrong. I don't need all this other stuff to realize that i could be (and often am) halucinating.