Nevertheless, it seems to be a very empirical way of beginning to understand the universe, more radically empirical in fact than science is itself.3 Here we are attending not only to the data of sense - perception but also to a much more proximate set of givens — the experiential components of our own subjectivity. (religion-online.org)
«Since there is no empirical way to show that one host is consecrated while another is not — consecrated hosts do not glow in the dark — there is also no way for anyone but the organizers to know whether a host used in a black mass has been consecrated or not,» Clooney said. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The underemphasis on the empirical way is particularly important because it has not only discouraged the aesthetic appreciation of the power of art and of the world of ordinary experience, it has also discouraged the moral action which such appreciation might engender. (religion-online.org)