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He's an empiricist because he believes that knowledge can only be gained through either sensory perception or rational thought. Additionally he seemed to believe that sensory perception was the more reliable of the two.
He is skeptical because he believes that we have gone a bit far in extrapolating to natural laws. The problem is that although we can see what might be causes and what might be effects we never actually see a "cause" all we see is two events taking place on before the other. There is too much that is not seen or otherwise observed in order to depend upon natural laws. Natural laws also assume the principle of uniformity, what happens in one place and time is somewhat likely to happen in another place and/or time, and the more it does happen this way the more we expect it to happen. The problem is that though we assume it, there is no proof for it.
I think it is called common sense. Pl excuse me if I am wrong.