Sentence examples for non-empirical from high-quality English sources.

• For (3) ordinarily has a non-empirical “default” warrant.

• ., for he clearly thinks that (3) ordinarily has a non-empirical warrant.

• As such, Daoist ethical ideals are anchored in a non-empirical, idealized view of nature.

• Synthetic a priori judgments, by contrast, are non-empirical, non-contingent judgments.

• In other words, Dingle raises a non-empirical objection about Milne et al.’s non-empiricism!

• Part of Kant’s innovation is to introduce into the philosophical lexicon the very idea that we can have non-empirical intuition.

• For instance, a non-empirical thin warrant for (2) may fail to warrant the extensionally equivalent ‘I am thinking that H2O is wet’ (Davies 2003b, p. 114 and 118).

• Philosophers in the analytic tradition are deeply skeptical about the power of non-empirical reason to arrive at substantive conclusions about the structure of the world—including human history.

Use non-empirical in a sentence.

• Truths that are knowable on non-empirical grounds are called a priori (an expression that begins to be used with this meaning around the time of Leibniz; see e.g. his “Primæ Veritates”, p. 518).

• The basic idea seems to be that the normative force of any particular evaluation that is carried out by an empirical consciousness is derived from its relation to a non-empirical, absolute value.

• The privileged access thesis roughly says that it is necessarily true that if a subject s is thinking that x, then s can in principle know a priori (or in a non-empirical way) that she herself is thinking that x.

• If this diagnosis is correct, one need not deny P9 or P10 to block the intuitively false consequence that s could acquire knowledge of the empirical proposition Q9 in virtue of only non-empirical knowledge.

• It requires rather better and more detailed answers to questions about what scientific methods are, how the mathematical (and other apparently non-empirical sciences) fit together with the empirical ones, and what, more precisely, philosophy’s role was.

• This is precisely what could not happen if Water is non-transmissive: in this case s could not learn Q9 on the basis of her non-empirical justification for P9 and P10, and her knowledge of the entailment between P9, P10 and Q9 (see mainly Wright 2000, 2003 and 2011, and Davies 1998, 2000, 2003a, 2003b and 2009).

• Perhaps Kant is suggesting here that the Newtonian and Leibnizian views of space and time, despite their evident differences along various dimensions, each indicate that the representation of space cannot be a non-empirical, singular, immediate representation, or perhaps they tacitly suppose that it cannot be such a representation.

• Einstein’s point seems to be that while one can always choose to designate selected elements as a priori and, hence, non-empirical, no principle determines which elements can be so designated, and our ability thus to designate them derives from the fact that it is only the totality of the elements that possesses empirical content.

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  Notice, of course, that an analogous skepticism is available to the diehard Euclidean: after all, non-Euclidean geometries are famously non-intuitive and hard to grasp.

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  Schopenhauer devotes many pages to empirical descriptions of the similarities between the forces at work throughout the rest of nature and the merely apparently rational but really non-rational character of our own behavior, but of course the character of things in themselves cannot be inferred directly from any amount of empirical data; Schopenhauer derives his conclusion not from all this empirical illustration but rather from our allegedly immediate rather than empirical insight into the character of our own wills and the very problematic premise that at bottom everything is essentially one.

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  Though empirical sciences rely heavily on non-deductive reasoning, the tools of deductive logic still offer a promising starting point.

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  But, as Matti Eklund (2007) points out, two kinds of entity that are individually non-interfering with respect to the empirical world might interfere with one another.