Full Idea
Extreme empiricists wind up unable to explain much of anything.
Gist of Idea
Extreme empiricists can hardly explain anything
Source
Chris Swoyer (Properties [2000], 2.3)
Book Reference
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.9
A Reaction
This seems to be the major problem for empiricism, but I am not sure why inference to the best explanation should not be part of a sensible empirical approach. Thinking laws are just 'descriptions of regularities' illustrates the difficulty.