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"Assumed" tbh

cause it's an assumption our "measurements" are representative of the reality of what's actually going on that far away.

we can't verify anything from this distance, so calling it empiricism is a stretch



> we can't verify anything from this distance, so calling it empiricism is a stretch

We can’t directly sense most phenomena, and even then our senses can be misleading. Empiricism just means based on observation; that describes cosmology to a tee.




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