I think you could make an even stronger argument against my post by writing the following:
The OP makes two contradictory claims:
“Western philosophy has no place for empiricism.”
“[E]mpiricism once formed the foundation for the Age of Reason.”
The “Age of Reason”, also known as the “Age of Enlightenment”, included the British Empiricists who founded a tradition of Western philosophy so empirical it now dominates the world.
I think you could make an even stronger argument against my post by writing the following: