If metaphysics is an empirical science, the question of whether or not to accept a metaphysical theory must be answerable, in part at any rate, by reference to experience.
All nontrivial versions of reasons internalism and externalism have substantive implications concerning the extension of agents' reasons, and for the most part theory here is answerable to common sense and aims at accommodating it.
Even so, the methodological naturalist will insist, such theories are still synthetic theories about the natural world, answerable in the last instance to the tribunal of a posteriori empirical data.
Teach them what different theories are out there for the things that aren't answerable by science, that aren't answered by science.
In almost all cases the relation is indirect: a given sentence is only answerable to experience if a significant body of theory is presupposed.
Are the objections answerable and was Socrates simply too inexperienced to answer them adequately?
In theory, because the commissioner – Britain's leading police officer – has a national function in areas such as counterterrorism and is answerable to the home secretary as well as the mayor and the Metropolitan Police Authority, he could have fought the move.
Not answerable to anyone".
