Is empiricism the epitome of dualism ?

There was no admission intended on my part of what we both perceived.
Your use of the emotive word "rancid" implied a value judgement which I might not have made given my internal state.

The point is that there may be no such thing as "pure sense data". Traditional empiricism (based on naive realism) tends to assume that there is. But following Kant's distinction between noumena (things in themselves which we cannot access) and phenomena (things in the mind) philosophers (phenomenologists and existentialists) have tended to hold noumena as "hypothetical" at best.

You should read Foucault ! He argued that even the phrase "Its a boy" as a birth announcement, is saturated with potential societal judgements and expectations.

We are going to have to differ about use of language and perception. I could do a supercilious rank pulling operation based on my research experience, but I won't. Hopefully I have perhaps simply given rise to a few questions in your mind about towing a "common sense" line. Whatever such a line is, "it ain't philosophy or psychology or linguistics".

I think you have been pulling a supercilious rank operation, as you call it, since you've been posting.

You ain't seen nothin yet!

I think you have been pulling a supercilious rank operation, as you call it, since you've been posting.