(March 23, 2019 at 10:20 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(March 23, 2019 at 9:21 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: I don't know how you could determine the reliability of something without using empirical data.
This is what I've been saying all along.
We can't think of any other way of being "reliable" because in our metaphysical view "reliable" is tautological with "science."
So by definition, we hold science to be the only possible reliable method.
Science is the study of the natural world, it is the label we put on the method that is used to determine what is most likely to be true. You want an example of a method that doesn't include the study of the natural world but is somehow shown to be reliable by beings existing in the natural world.