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[Stunster]

What experiment confirms that the experimental method is the only valid form of knowledge about the world?

How are these propositions empirically verified?

"There are minds other than my own".

"Sensory data normally indicate the existence of material bodies outside of one's own, but not always."

"The world did not spring into existence five minutes ago"

It seems to me that all of these could be false, consistent with our empirical observations, no matter how often repeated. And yet, I'd say that, in a very reasonable sense of 'know', we know they're all true.