Sentence examples for empirically from high-quality English sources.

• Those are empirically acceptable for S at t.

• “We hypothesised that satiation might occur later for men than women due to the fact that the income-happiness link is empirically stronger in men and because of the strong emphasis on achievement and social status within conventional masculine gender norms.”

• David Shambaugh, an analyst of the Chinese armed forces, argues that “The recent hype in the media and by those in the American political system about the so-called Chinese threat is grossly overblown, not empirically grounded, irresponsible and politically dangerous.”

• If the former, the issue is, at least in principle, empirically decidable.

• Quite generally, any theory is empirically equivalent to its translation into any other language.

• So it is not clear that the VIA is an empirically adequate framework for thinking about character.

• According to Ayer, a statement is factually contentful if and only if it is empirically verifiable.

• Common causation, they note, can lead to an empirically based denial that one co-effect causes another.

Use empirically in a sentence.

• Dasgupta (2009) thinks that objects (he calls them “individuals”) are physically redundant and empirically undetectable.

• Thus, it would not be miraculous for science to arrive at an empirically adequate, scientifically successful, yet false theory.

• Notice that a programme can make progress, both theoretically and empirically, even though every theory produced within it is refuted.

• The notion of a ruby seems to be a hybrid notion: its color is knowable a priori but its material essence as given in 15bi is knowable only empirically.

• So, for Everett, a theory was empirically faithful and hence empirically acceptable if there was a homomorphism between its model and the world as experienced.

• Such a reduction in the number of operationally meaningful concepts will almost inevitably result in a corresponding reduction in the number of relations that can be tested empirically.

• See Figure 1 for a graphical illustration of the relations that make a theory empirically adequate on van Fraassen’s view, with the cloud shapes representing the relata of the isomorphism relation.

• But they insist that these factors are valuable in that pursuit only insofar as their consideration advances the development of theories that are empirically adequate and empirically strong.

empirically sentence examples

• The argument goes on to say that it follows that all the empirically equivalent theories are equally believable, and hence belief in the truth of any one of those empirically equivalent theories must be irrational.

• And Burgess argues that the question of whether mathematical objects exist is not empirically meaningful, whereas the question of whether the (non-abstract) objects in our fictional stories exist is empirically meaningful.)

• the quest to empirically increase the quantity of instances (…) is rather to secure the soundness of the modus tollens, to secure the truth of the pivotal second premise, the claim that there are counterinstances to the realist meta-hypothesis.

• Windelband also believes that the history of philosophy, pursued empirically and scientifically, can disentangle from one another the “temporal causes and timeless reasons” (1905: 189) that together give rise to the emergence of philosophical problems.