He is clear, though, that it would be beyond the competence of scientific empiricism to talk about the divine entity.
2.
He's basically a philosopher of mind having a hissy fit because scientific empiricism keeps encroaching on his freedom to pontificate on the'Mysteries of Life " !'( shades of the Deep Thought scene from Hitchhikers'Guide ).
3.
Assuming the genetic markers point to Clinton ( and that Clinton doesn't resort to claiming a heretofore undisclosed identical twin ), scientific empiricism, in collaboration with the more untidy empiricism of daily journalism, will have triumphed.
4.
He happily discusses a range of Japanese faiths : that there is a heaven and hell; that there is nothing after death, according to scientific empiricism; that the divide between the brain and the objective world is no longer clear.