Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.
Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.
. . . mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism. . . they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.
My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [. . . ] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.
