"I first referred to it as an "empirical question"."

Such a poor memory. Even for what you wrote. Any even when copypasta back.

"It's an empirical assertion."

Does THAT refresh your memory?

No wonder you won't even cite yourself. You want to be able to retroactively change what you wrote.

Nope, it was never a question. It was an assertion. You weren't proposing to ask. You declared it answered and then told us why any hypothetically tested answer should match the results supporting your "empirical assertion."

But before you can make an empirical assertion you need empirical proof.

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Your citations are non-sequiturs. Both are derivative works, theses; each with their own propositions and arguments. ( Ferinstance Ayer's reductionistic take on eliminating all non-empirical assertions from philosophy would actually quite undermine your earlier misreading of me as an Ayerian reductionist. ) Neither of these citations cover the basic working definitions of empiricism; which Wikipedia already has and which I linked to.

Did you even read the page on Ayer? Are you aware of where the Austrian School went AFTER logical positivism. Are you remotely interested in Karl Popper's discovery of another necessary property of the empirical assertion beyond Ayer's verifiability?

Dante