Thread:User talk:Tmtoulouse/Bump: You know that obnoxious thing people do on the internet when they've said something and they feel they haven't been paid enough attention? I'm doing that./reply (15)

Physical is not the key word, rather observable (not observable merely in the sense of vision but as broadly as that term can be defined). Science is about making sense of observations and applying those observations to the creation of model construction to add in comprehension of our observed reality. The only way that there could ever be an epistemological system orthogonal to science is if it some how adds in comprehending non-observable reality.

But this leads into the same issues I brought up below. Systems of knowledge that try and postulate hidden things operating in a universe that acts exactly as if there are no hidden things violates the principle of parsimony. I don't see how anyone would be okay with an epistemology that didn't embrace parsimony, you would get stuck in an infinitely increasing loop of made up gibberish with no mechanism to break out of it.