In psychological empiricism—as in all forms of functional empiricism—our objective is not to construct or defend a singular, monolithic model of truth. Rather, we aspire to develop, maintain, and empirically test multiple conceptual frameworks, evaluating their efficacy in relation to lived experience.
We may ask: Why does a person behave thus? How does this belief influence the quality or function of my life? What values or principles are conducive to long-term fulfilment? These questions are not rhetorical. They are hypotheses awaiting experimentation.
The testing process is guided by criteria—but those criteria themselves are subject to refinement, evaluated against meta-criteria such as personal flourishing, coherence, or psychological resilience. In this way, the model retains a degree of structured adaptability, continuously aligned with what one might call a pragmatic teleology—the ongoing pursuit of that which is experientially and functionally worthwhile.
This model represents a new class of open-mindedness—empirical open-mindedness. It stands in contrast to what we might call conventional open-mindedness, wherein ideas are passively entertained without active engagement, critique, or outcome-based assessment. The conventional approach, aligned with traditional liberalism, presupposes that no single mind can apprehend the full truth, and thus entertains multiplicity without resolution.
By contrast, psychological empiricism is not merely receptive—it is interrogative. It insists on critical engagement, prediction, and real-time testing. It is radically open to new ideas, precisely because it is radically disciplined in testing them.
Such a posture runs counter to Neo-Marxist liberalism, which begins not with empirical testing but with ideological orthodoxy. Within that framework, certain narratives are elevated to unquestionable dogma, and dissenting perspectives are met not with discussion, but with branding and exclusion. In such a context, the psychological empiricist becomes a subversive figure—willing to entertain and assess models that lie beyond the bounds of accepted discourse, and thereby vulnerable to misrepresentation and social censure.
Yet it is this willingness—this audacity to think beyond conformity and to expose one’s thought to the crystal of reality—that makes psychological empiricism the most adaptive, resilient, and truth-oriented mode of internal and external life.