Bas van Fraassen - To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.

- Bas van Fraassen

topic: Mean, Science, Reality, Empiricism