But I don't think of the empirical world as confirmation of anything in that sense.
If language not only describes but also creates, then, as their vocabulary disappears, so, too, does the empirical world.
Nevertheless, the empirical world is not totally unreal, for it is a misapprehension of the real brahman.
At first, philosophy for Marcel meant a highly abstract type of thought that sought to transcend the everyday empirical world.
Shankara in his philosophy starts not with logical analysis from the empirical world but rather directly with the Absolute (brahman).
The pagerank algorithm is a window on the wall of Plato's cave, whence the objective, empirical world of Relevance may be seen and retrieved.
He argues that Judaism helped free humanity from bondage to the immediate empirical world, opening up fresh possibilities for human thought and action.
The dharmas are thought to function momentarily, producing the empirical phenomena of the world, which is illusory, but to exist outside the empirical world.
Similarly, in Buddhism a primordial ignorance (avijja) started the chain of "dependent origination" (paticca samuppada) that produces the infinite misery of unending rebirth in the empirical world.
Theoretically, the Buddhist initiate should, by his own effort in seeking to eradicate desire for continued existence in the empirical world, achieve his own salvation.
According to the Hindu philosophical system known as Advaita Vedanta, a primordial ignorance (avidya) originally caused souls to mistake the empirical world for reality and so become incarnated in it.
