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Questions on physicalism

Just wanted to ask. Wouldn't what we know about contemporary physics and the epistemic limits involved in the creation of such knowledge put physicalism in a position open to criticism? Much of what we know beyond the subatomic depends on not-quite empirical knowledge and seem to be inferred by mathematical limits. And wouldn't said knowledge also suggest the idea of the "physical" actually emerges from relationships that are not what we understand to be physical l?
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> Wouldn't what we know about contemporary physics and the epistemic limits involved in the creation of such knowledge put physicalism in a position open to criticism?

Physicalism is already and in any case a position open to criticism!

> Much of what we know beyond the subatomic depends on not-quite empirical knowledge and seem to be inferred by mathematical limits.

But physicalism needn't restrict its grounds to strictly empirical sources, so this worry is probably neither here nor there.