Empirical is everything that we experience or observe in this[/b] reality which is in Existence. But Existence and our understanding of it is not limited to our sensory experiences/observations. That would be absurd.
The characteristics are not limited to our reality as that would be absurd. You cannot have omnipresence/Existence limited to a finite reality. You’d have to deal with the paradox of something coming from nothing and reason dictates that we can never ignore paradoxes.
As you correctly highlighted, Existence and reality are not the same thing. That would be paradoxical (no need to demonstrate, as we agree on this point)
Reason and language clearly dictate 4 categories to all things: The necessary, the potential, the absurd, the unknown. Agreed?
Existence being infinite (necessary), means it has the potential to generate all hypothetical possibilities (potentials)
See how this is paradox free? Now if you consider any alternative to this, I guarantee you absurdity. Try it.
Reason dictates that Existence is not beyond what can be sensed. It is beyond/more than what we can sense but reason dictates that sensing something and understanding something are two different things. We understand that Existence may have aspects that we are unaware of (this is not paradoxical). For example Q: Reason tells us that we don’t know if Existence has the potential to generate/sustain a being with a 100 senses, but we know it can generate/sustain unicorns. Q is not something that we sense, it is something that we understand. Agreed?
We understand that there is Existence, because non-existence is absurd. We understand that Existence is infinite, because Existence being finite/us/our reality is absurd. So reason clearly dictates and demonstrates that we understand Existence is infinite (therefore, beyond/greater than our senses, as we are not infinite/Existence) Do you see the circle of truth?
We can empirically observe that which is in our reality (the stuff we sense) we can theorise and describe these observations so long asthey never ever amount to paradoxes like a particle going in an out of Existence. Going into another dimension or reality is fine, but we certainly cannot say going into non-existence (absurd). Right?
Reason dictates that we can never ignore or believe in anything paradoxical. It dictates that we acknowledge that which has meaning (is rational) appropriately (By distinguishing that which is necessary from that which is potential/hypothetically possible) and to not apply it to that which we have no knowledge of/Is entirely unknown (we can’t rationally investigate or talk about or theorise about beings that have a 100 senses)