Empiricism, Method, Virtual Reality

As has been previously discussed, according to a rigorous execution of Cartesian Skepticism, 'I doubt' means 'I methodically doubt'.  On that basis, 'I think' means 'I think methodically', or, in other words, 'I reason technically', i. e. because Techne consists in proceeding according to a rule, which is what 'methodically' means.  Now, Locke also neglects that Empiricism is a Method, and, hence, that it is constituted by Technical Reason, though the possibility of that self-discovery remains open to an Empiricist who locates Sense-Experience in the plainly evident context of Action.  However, Berkeley emphatically eliminates that possibility, by completely privatizing Empiricism, transforming it into a Virtual Reality doctrine, the only activity in which of his disembodied Avatar is receiving communications from a deity.  Often overshadowed in that privatization by the reduction of Primary Qualities to Secondary Qualities, is his reduction of depth-perception to a construct out of Secondary Qualities, thereby eliminating any externality from Experience.  Even as putatively secularized by Hume and Smith, that doctrine accordingly transforms Lockeian Democracy into a Virtual Reality Political Philosophy, the influence of which continues today.  In the process, the concept of Citizenship in a Democracy as consisting in Technical Reason, i. e. Self-Rule, remains an obscured potential.