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1. Empiricism defines reality as the **totality of all true facts**, whether known or knowable in principle.
2. These facts are **formalizable** — expressible in statements, equations, or logical propositions.
3. Empiricism allows **no external metaphysical assumptions**: only that which can be inferred from experience or reason about experience.
3. Empiricism implicitly positions itself as a closed system: all truths must be derivable from empirical data and logical analysis of that data. All explanations on empiricism must come from within empiricism (experience and logic), not from outside it. Empiricism is therefore a self-sufficient system.
4. Empiricism allows **no external metaphysical assumptions**: only that which can be inferred from experience or reason about experience.
**Conclusion 2**: Empiricism treats reality as a **self-contained formal system** — precisely the kind of system described in Step 1.