Fubar ... "The notion of animal cognition is a behavioral science, so it can only be studied and commented upon with reference to empircal results."

Well ... if you are really epmiricist,,, you can find many things in my article that you would like to verify through empirical tests.

Yes I do still recocnize the validity of style of Hume, Lock reasoning etc.

For me,,, science is not independent of Rationality. Science is not only "Empirical". My following article explains it:

Nature of Science --- Rational or Empirical...???

Rational arguments can lead to truth...!!!