The scientific method is only used to validate provisional models of reality against observation—it makes no ontological claim about the nature of reality itself.
Which is why philosophers of science like Lee McIntyre do not use the scientific method as their basis for defining science. Instead, there’s a way to flip the strategy on its head: define science not by its method but by its attitude. Funnily enough, the attitude is precisely what the comment says: embrace empiricism; assume reality is real and that we can understand it.
The scientific method is only used to validate provisional models of reality against observation—it makes no ontological claim about the nature of reality itself.
Which is why philosophers of science like Lee McIntyre do not use the scientific method as their basis for defining science. Instead, there’s a way to flip the strategy on its head: define science not by its method but by its attitude. Funnily enough, the attitude is precisely what the comment says: embrace empiricism; assume reality is real and that we can understand it.
Fine, replace “reality” with “working model” then.