It’s a fun exercise, as a thought experiment, to parse the community postings as though they are part of Sense’s ML … and to a greater extent we are responsible for improving (or “disproving”/“disapproving”) the concept. Throwing out a recent post as an example of something “proving”/“approving” to ponder …
If anybody wants a fascinating read regarding, among other things, “empirical temperature” and the history of caloric, I recommend “Thermodynamic Weirdness” by Don S. Lemons. It puts things into perspective in a way that only the history of science seems to be able to achieve.