Debate with a Christian

[Rampant.A.I.]

oh, well.... then... nothing takes up space... everything can be displaced! :P

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I like it that you put uninteresting boundaries in some statements...
"tenable investigative methodology by philosophers".
I wasn't aware that philosophers performed something called "investigation".

Or are you now wanting to say that people with a PhD (Philosophy Doctorate), regular scientists, don't use empiricism to arrive at their results and conclusions?

Empiricism is not something you "use", it is a theory of knowledge. Empiricists "use" their senses, instruments, or any other tool pertinent to the object of their investigation. I use the terms "investigative methodology" and "theory of knowledge" synonomously which was ambiguous.

It's only ambiguous because your theory of knowledge isn't empirically based, and isn't a true investigative methodology. To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, if you begin with a theory before gathering all the facts, insatiably one begins to twist the facts to suit the theory.

Philosophers of science investigate various things pertinent to science, philosophers of history investigate various things pertinent to history as well and so on and so forth.

And philosophers of Dadaism blibbity bloop blip blop doo-WEEEEIH.